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THE CITY OF BANGOR 

The Industries, Resources, Attractions and Business 
Life of Bangor and Its Environs 

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Manufacturing: Advantages, Commercial Relations, Trans* 
portation Facilities, Business Resources* Educational 
Opportunities, and Social Features of the 
Metropolis of the Northeast 




COMPILED AID PUBLISHED BY 

Edward Mitchell v Blanding 

SECRETARY OF THE BAJTGOR BOARD OF TRADE 
AND 

EDITOR OF THE INDUSTRIAL JOURNAL 

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BANGOR, MAINE 




5744 



ISSUED 
UNDER THE AUSPICES 
OF THE 
BANGOR BOARD OF TRADE 



INTRODUCTORY 



BURING the twenty-seven years the Bangor Board of Trade has 
been in existence there have been brought out under its auspices 
_ several publications setting forth the industries and resources of 
Bangor, a city universally recognized as the business centre of 
Eastern Maine, and rapidly coming to the front as the metropolis of the 
Northeast. The first of these pamphlet publications appeared in 1873 
and others were issued in 1883 and 1888. 

More than a decade of years have elapsed since the appearance of the 
last of these elaborate business reviews, and as these years have been 
characterized by a notable advancement in the realms of trade, com- 
merce and industry, especially fitting it is that something now be brought 
out descriptive of the Bangor of to-day and worthy of the proud city at 
the head of navigation on the noble Penobscot. The object in view is 
to set forth in attractive and convenient form the industries, resources, 
attractions and business life of the City of Bangor and its environs. In 
the present day illustrations play a prominent part in all of the higher 
class of publications and these pages are embellished with the finest 
half-tone engravings obtainable. 

Desirous of enlisting the aid of lovers of the camera the Secretary of 
the Bangor Board of Trade invited all amateur photographers — both 
ladies and gentlemen — to submit photographs taken in this vicinity, the 
views to represent either scenery, public buildings, business blocks^ 
manufacturing plants or residences, and for the three best photographs 
prizes were offered. The committee on award was composed of Charles 
S. Pearl, Esq., President of the Bangor Board of Trade; Hon. Henry 
Lord, President of the State Board of Trade ; and Mrs. L. M. B. Thomp- 
son, Chairman of the Art Committee, Athene Club. Widespread inter- 
est was taken in this competition and a very large number of views 
submitted. The contest closed June 27th and prizes were awarded as 
follows: 1st, W. E. Spear, "Falls on the Kenduskeag;" 2nd, Mrs. 
Katherine E. P. Stewart, " Bird's Eye View of Bangor from the Stand- 
pipe; " and 3rd, Louis R. Boyd, " Residence of Hon. Franklin A. AVil- 
son." The prize views, together with many others submitted by the 
•contestants, will be found in u Bangor and Vicinity Illustrated." 



HISTORICAL SKETCH 



f'HE history of Bangor begins with the coming of one Jacob Bus- 
i well, of Salisbury, Mass., with his wife and nine children, in 1769, 
to the junction of the Penobscot river and Kenduskeag stream, 
where he built for himself and family a rude log house. The site 
of this first Bangor home was near the spot where now stands St. 




THE BUSINESS CENTER FROM STATE STREET. 

John's Catholic Church, — a place chosen because of the near proximity 
of a spring of cold water, and its commanding view of the noble river 
and valley below. Jacob Buswell had been a soldier in the King of 
England's forces during the French and Indian war, was in straightened 
circumstances, and came to the heart' of the Maine forests because there 
he found promise of the easiest and surest means of subsistence .or him- 
self and his family. As a squatter, his homestead cost him no liing, the 



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forest timber promised him warmth and shelter, while an abundance of 
fish and game provided him with sure and unfailing supplies of food. 
The fact that this neighborhood had then long been the camping ground 
of the Tarratines, a famous Indian tribe, shows that the first white 
settler on the site of Bangor chose his dwelling place with excellent 
judgment. 

But the pioneer Buswell was not the first white man to visit or note 
the advantages of settlement at the confluence of Kenduskeag stream 
and the Penobscot river. As early as 1605 the French had visited the 




IXTO THE CITY'S HEART PROM HAMMOND ST. CHURCH. 

locality, and in 1613 the Jesuits had contemplated planting a mission 
here, but finally determined on Mount Desert. About 1670 Baron de 
Castine of Canada came into the region, gained great influence with the 
Tarratine Indians by means of marriage with the daughter of Chief 
Modockawando and established a trading place where now stands the 
historic town of Castine. As a consecjuence, for almost a century before 
the first settlement on Bangor's present site, the Penol scot river was a 
highway of communication between Canada and the French trading- 
posts established in the Penobscot region. And it was not till the fall 



BANGOR and vicinity illustrated 



of Quebec and the final crushing of French power in America in 1759 
that this region became inviting to settlers from England or the colonies 
to the southward. 

Kadesquit was the first name by which Jacob Buswell knew the place 
of his settlement. Later it became Condeskeag, and then Kenduskeag. 
Mr. Buswell and family were lone settlers for a year, when a newly- 
married son brought his wife to Kadesquit, and one Caleb Goodwin, 
wife and eight children also cast their lot with the new settlement. 




lovers' leap, on the kenduskeag. 

More families came with each succeeding year, and when the Revolu- 
tionary war broke over the American colonies, Kenduskeag plantation 
contained probably about seventy-five souls, and on both banks of the 
Penobscot between Stillwater and Bald Hill Cove, in 1776, there were 
seventy-eight heads of families. 

As early as 1771, John Brewer of Worcester, Mass., had come to this 
region and built a mill on the east side of the Penobscot river where 
the city of Brewer now stands, at the mouth of Segeundeclunk stream. 



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He, with twenty-one others, ran out the first tract of timber land, and 
was the pioneer mill man of the region. In 1772 Solomon and Silas 
Harthorn built a saw mill at the mouth of the Penjejawock near the 
present site of Mount Hope cemetery. In the same year James Budge, 
an enterprising lumberman, erected a saw mill on Mantawassuck 
stream, which enters the Penobscot midway between the Bangor Water 
Works and Eddington Bend. 

The period of the Revolutionary war was a hard and trying one for 



the people of Kenduskeag plantation. The British had control of the 
Penobscot river and commanded the subjection of all the inhabitants on 
its banks. But the people of the little settlement were heart and soul 
for the cause of independence. A military band of twenty white men 
and ten Indians was organized in 1776. Headquarters were established 
at a rough barrack built near the present Mount Hope cemetery. These 
men helped drive Sir John Collier from Machias, and it was through 
their efforts that the powerful Penobscot Indians were held loyal friends 
to the American cause throughout the war. The mouth of Kenduskeag 
stream in the Penobscot was the final scene in August, 1779, of the ill- 




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THE STAND-PIPE AT SUMMIT PARK. 



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starred expedition of Commodore Richard Saltonstall and General Solo- 
mon Lovell, sent out of Massachusetts against the British who had 
established themselves at Castine. A British fleet under Sir George 
Collier made its appearance in Penobscot Bay and so frightened the 
American fleet and forces that they fled before the British ships up the 
Penobscot, and at the mouth of the Kenduskeag the Americans blew up 
or burned their nine ships of one hundred and fifty-four guns and three 
transports, and made their retreat through the pathless forests west- 




RIVERWARD FROM THE UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. 

ward. One of the cannon of these ships was raised from the river's 
bottom in 1876, and is now to be seen in front of the Bangor post-office 
and custom house building. 

Many of the settlers left the Penobscot after the disaster to the 
Penobscot expedition, and of those few who remained many, with the 
promise of safety and security from the British, took the oath of allegi- 
ance to the crown. But it should be said that only those in direst cir- 
cumstances and who were hampered by poverty or large and needy 
families remained in the region to take the oath of allegiance, and con- 



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quered against their will, they were of the American opinion still, and 
remained so till the close of hostilities two years later. 

With the advent of peace between England and the United States, 
came a revival of the settlement at Kenduskeag. Many who had left 
the region because of British persecution returned. But this revival 
and growth was slow, and the records of it very meagre. In 1786 the 
general Government sent General Lincoln, General Putnam and Dr. 
Thomas Rice to Condeskeag to purchase the title of Indians to the lands 
on the Penobscot river. The chiefs with whom they gravely treated 




THE WEST SIDE, FROM AX EAST SIDE VANTAGE GROUND. 

were Orono, Orson, Xeptune and Neptonbovitt. The Indians agreed to 
quit their right to the land " six miles wide from the river " from a 
point three miles above Oldtown, but were to retain Oldtown Islands 
and Black Island and White Island in the bay, with lands "up the 
river." And because of this agreement there are Indians on Oldtown 
Island to-day. 

About this time there came to Condeskeag one who should receive 
mention, because to him the city of Bangor owes its name. This man 
was Rev. Seth ISToble, a native of Westfield, Mass. He was a patriot 




MORSE— OLIVER BLOCK. 



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and a chaplain in the Maine forces during the Revolutionary war, and 
was the first installed pastor in Condeskeag, although he had no meet- 
ing house in which to preach. He was a good speaker, but far from 
ministerial in his habits and talk. He first taught the people of Con- 
deskeag to call their settlement Suubury. In 1791 the population of 
Sunbury numbered one hundred and fifty people and the plantation 
organization seemed to its people to be primitive and outgrown. 
Accordingly it was decided to ask the General Court of Massachusetts 
for an act of town incorporation and Parson Noble was delegated to 
visit Boston and secure the same. Supposedly the town was to be 
incorporated as Sunbury, but at Boston Mr. Noble, who was a great 





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lover of music, asked that the town be incorporated Bangor, the name 
of a favorite hymn, and the General Court so incorporated it, February 
25, 1791. Mr. Noble's constituents never expressed dissatisfaction, and 
so, the name of Bangor, — town and city. 

In 1791 Robert Treat began shipbuilding in Bangor and built the first 
ship ever launched from Bangor ways. About this time the production 
of lumber became an important industry in tbe region. As early as 
1786 William Potter had built a small mill on the Kenduskeag at the 
falls under Lovers' Leap. In 1795 William Hammond and John Smart 
built a sawmill where Morse & Company's mills now stand. Fish began 
to be an important export of Bangor inhabitants at this time, and ves- 



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sels began to frequent the river for the purpose of securing cargoes of 
both lumber and fish. 

Bangor entered upon the nineteenth century, thirty-one years after 
its settlement, with a population of 277. Its growth thus far had been 
slow. Not till 1801 had a single settler a legal title to his land. In that 
year the General Court of Massachusetts passed a resolve giving deeds 
of land to the early settlers on most liberal terms, also providing for a 
committee to survey lots and establish their bounds. The result of this 
act and a legislative provision giving farms for the asking to bona fide 
settlers had the effect of setting immigration from the more thickly set- 
tled part of Massachusetts toward the Penobscot region. The admira- 
ble situation of Baugor at the head of navigation on the Penobscot and 



its central location in what was obviously to be a thriving community, 
further conduced to increasing the population at the opening of the new 
century. 

Proof of the growth of Bangor at the time is found in the fact that 
in 1802 two taverns had become necessary to entertain travelers and 
wayfarers ; that the town was divided by its selectmen into four school 
districts, and that serious discussion of a toll bridge across Condeskeag 
stream near its mouth was entered into by the inhabitants of Bangor. 
The bridge was built six years later. 

During the war of 1812 Bangor had sorry experience at the hands of 
the British, as it had in the war of the revolution. In September, 1814, 
the town was taken possession of by the British and for about 30 hours 





ENTRANCE TO NIBEN CLUB BICYCLE PATH. 



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its stores, offices and deserted dwellings were pillaged, and eight mer- 
chant vessels at the wharves taken or burned. The town escaped being 
burned only by the selectmen bonding it to fulfill certain hard condi- 
tions with the British whose headquarters were at Castine. The occu- 
pation of Bangor by the British was preceded by a fight at Hampden 
between raw American recruits under General Blake of Brewer and 
men from the United States ship Adams commanded by Cnptain Mills, 
who had anchored his vessel at Hampden for repairs, and was there at- 
tacked in large force by a British fleet and troops. In the skirmish at 
Hampden eleven Americans were wounded and one killed; two British 
were killed and seven wounded. The American raw recruits broke al- 
most at the first fire and retreated in all directions. General Blake was 




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BOFFIN'S BOWER, NIBKN CLUB BICYCLE PATH. 

captured at his home in Brewer. Eighty prisoners were taken by the 
British in Hampden, the United States ship Adams was blown up by 
her own men. but her twenty guns fell into the hands of the British, 
and the town was sacked and bonded, like Bangor, to hard conditions. 

In 1815 Bangor possessed its first newspaper, the Bangor Weekly 
Register, edited by Peter Edes who came from Augusta. Me. The Ban- 
gor Whig and Courier of today is the lineal descendant of this first Ban- 
gor newspaper. The Register's editorial columns were used to endorse 
strongly the separation of Maine from Massachusetts. This year. too. 
saw the inauguration of the first Sabbath school in Bangor, and $700 
was appropriated as a salary for Minister Loomis and $600 for the 



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schools. The population of the town had grown to be about 1,000 
souls. 

In 1820 Maine became a state and Bangor seemed to receive a new im- 
pulse to growth from its share in statehood. Agriculture prospered, 
the lumber interests increased and shipbuilding nourished. A bank had 
been established and thrived ; the town possessed a court house and jail ; 
several churches were erected and the theological seminary had been 
established. 

In the early thirties Bangor made rapid growth, land valuations 
materially advancing and the era being one of great speculation. From 
1830 to 1S34 the population increased from 2808 to about 8000. It was 
in the latter year that Bangor became incorporated as a city, Hon. 



THE ARCH, NIBEN CLUB BICYCLE PATH. 

Allen Gilman being the first mayor. It was in the fall of the following 
year, 1835, that Daniel Webster, who was then in the zenith of his 
power, and who, in his young manhood, came near locating in this city, 
was tendered a banquet at the Bangor House, then recently built. Mr. 
Webster expressed the current opinion regarding Bangor in the open- 
ing remarks of his address on that occasion, when he said : 

"Having occasion to come into the state on professional business, I 
have gladly availed myself of the opportunity to visit this city, the 
growing magnitude and importance of which have recently attracted 
so much general notice. 1 am happy to say that I see around me ample 
proofs of the correctness of those favorable representations which have 
gone abroad. Your city, gentlemen, has undoubtedly experienced an 



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extraordinary growth ; and it is a growth, I think, which there is rea- 
son to hope is not unnatural, or greatly disproportionate to the eminent 
advantages of the place. It so happened that, at an early period of 
my life, I came to this spot, attracted by that favorable position which 
the slightest glance on the map must satisfy everyone that it occupies/' 
Among the events that have left their imprint on the history of this 
region was the famous Aroostook war. In 1826 arose the northeastern 
boundary dispute, and it was not till the early forties that the contro- 
versy was finally settled. Until 1812 there was no question raised 
regarding the boundary, the St. Croix being agreed upon as the correct 
division; but beyond the monument marking the head of the river all 




ON THE KENDUSKEAG, ABOVE BULL S EYE BRIDGE. 

was undetermined. After the treaty of Ghent a commission of English 
and American engineers was appointed to run the boundary line. It 
was to extend north to the highlands, from which the waters flow to 
the Atlantic and to the St. Lawrence. Xo difference of opinion arose 
among the engineers until Mars Hill was reached: then the English 
engineers claimed they had reached the "highlands," while the Ameri- 
cans dissented, and both parties reported to their respective govern- 
ments. To be ready in case of an emergency the United States sent a 
detachment of troops to Iloulton. and they remained in barracks there 
until 1842, when the boundary settlement was finally reached. In 1828 
Congress made provision for a military road from Bangor to Iloulton, 



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and this was completed in 1830, this great highway being an important 
factor in opening up to development the fertile lands of that region. 
The claim of the British was a large one and meant that Maine would be 
robbed of about a third of its territory. In 1839 it was reported to the 
state authorities that New Brunswick lumbermen were carrying on 
extensive lumbering operations on the disputed territory. The sheriff 
of Penobscot County was then ordered to Aroostook, and took with him 
a posse of two hundred men, the trespassers retiring into New Bruns- 
wick; but breaking into the government arsenal at Woodstock they 




HON. FRANKLIN A. WILSON'S RESIDENCE. 

returned armed and readj r to meet the sheriff, in the meantime having 
captured the Maine land agent. The Maine legislature immediately 
appropriated 8800,000 to defend the public land? and the governor called 
out 10,000 militia, while the United States Congress appropriated 
$ 10,000,000 to meet probable expenses and authorized the President to 
raise 50.000 volunteers. In due time the trouble was settled by a mutual 
withdrawal of troops and the protection of the lumber by a civil posse 
of Maine. Thus ended the bloodless Aroostook war; but those were 
stirring times in the vicinity of Bangor. The boundary question was 
permanently settled in 1842 by Lord Ashburton and the American 



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Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, together with the commissioners 
appointed by Maine. 

A prominent place in the city's history was rilled by the great flood 
of 1846. The conditions that winter were exceptional, and the entire 
bed of the river, except the channel, seemed to have become an almost 
solid body of ice. With the approach of spring the river began to break 
up for thirty miles above the city, while it continued firmly bound for 
twelve miles below. At different points above the city there were jams 




HON. HANNIBAL HAMLIN. 

or ice dams, the two most formidable being seven miles above the city, 
in the vicinity of the two largest and most important ranges of saw 
mills. These mills were raised from their foundation by the high 
waters, and as the jam gave way they were swept down the river. The 
jams gradually worked their way down, carrying destruction to bridges 
and buildings along the banks, until they were all concentrated in one 
immense mass four miles in length, of great height and depth, filling 
the river, white above the jam the water was twenty to thirty feet above 



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its usual height, making a dead level of the falls. The first injury to 
the city was by the breaking away of a section of the dam, resulting in 
the inundation of a score of houses on the west bank and the sweeping 
of buildings and lumber on the wharves. Meanwhile another auxiliary 
to the fearful work had been preparing by the breaking up of the ice in 
the Kenduskeag river, which flows through the heart of the city. The 
whole flat on the margin of the river is covered with stores and public 





HON. CHARLES A. BOUTELLE. 

buildings. At midnight the bells were rung to announce the giving 
way of the ice. The streets were thronged with people, who gathered 
to behold the ice avalanche. The jam passed on to High Head, but in 
the narrows it came to a halt, and quickly the water commenced to 
roll back upon the fated city. So quick was the revulsion that it seemed 
but a moment before the entire flat comprising the business section was 
deluged, and it required the utmost speed on the part of the people to 
escape the rising water. The following day, Sunday, was the saddest 
and most serious ever passed in Bangor. In the early evening the alarm 
was again rung, and the citizens came out to witness the climax of this 



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unparalleled disaster. Darkness soon shrouded the scene, but the ter- 
rific uproar beat upon the ear, and amid the roaring of the waters and 
crash of buildings, bridges and lumber, the eye could trace the mam- 
moth ice jam of four miles long, which passed on majestically but with 
lightning-like velocity, bearing the contents of both rivers on its bosom. 
The great covered bridge across the Penobscot, two bridges across 
the Kenduskeag, the new market and the two long ranges of saw mills, 
besides other mills, houses, shops, logs and lumber enough to build a 



GEN. SAMUEL F. HKRSEY. 

town, all swept on toward the sea. Fortunately the disaster was not 
accompanied with loss of life, but the loss amounted to about $200,000. 

Bangor's citizens in the early days were ready to undertake large 
enterprises, and back in the thirties they built and operated the first 
steam passenger and freight railroad in Maine, and one of the first in 
the country. The road was built by the Bangor and Piscataquis Canal 
and Railroad Company, which was subsequently changed to the Ban- 
gor, Oldtown and Milford Railroad Company. Prominent among its 
promoters were Messrs. E. and S. Smith, two brothers actively inter- 



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ested in real estate and timber lands. Later General Samuel Veazie, 
one of the wealthiest business men of the Penobscot Valley, secured 
control of the line, and it subsequently became known as the Veazie 
Railroad. The railroad was started in 1835 and begun operation during 
1836. the formal opening- being a red letter day throughout this section 
of the state, people flocking from miles away to join in the celebra- 
tion. The road was originally twelve miles long, but afterward was 
extended to Milford. the cost of the railway and equipment being §600,- 
000. At first there were two engines, the " Pioneer " and ; ' Xo. 6,'" a 
third, the 4 - Elliott, being later secured in Boston. The two original 
locomotiyes were of the Stevenson make and came from England. 



They had no cabs when sent here, but were afterwards provided with 
rude contrivances called cabs. The old engines weighed, including the 
tender, about ten tons each. They burned wood and were provided 
with bells somewhat resembling a cow bell. The original cars were 
also of English manufacture and were in style decidely unique, especi- 
ally in comparison with the modern railway coaches. They were mere - 
ly platform cars upon which were placed a boxlike arrangement re- 
sembling the ancient stage coach, which would carry eight people to a 
car. two seats facing each other carrying four persons each. After a 
time the cars were made larger, so that they were all of twenty feet in 
length. It was thought that the heaviest engine they could use would 
be thirteen tons. The gauge of the road was four feet eight and one- 




LOCOMOTIVE 



PIONEER. 



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half inches, now the standard gauge, and the old strap rails were one 
and five-eighths inches thick. The speed acquired by the trains over 
this road was not terrific, the run of twelve miles being made in about 
forty minutes; but that was considered pretty swift in those days. 
The construction of the track was, to say the least, novel. To begin 
with, piles were driven into the ground just as far as the nature of the 
ground would permit, the piles being twelve feet apart in two rows. 
Some were driven in twenty-five or thirty feet, and others more. 
Then they were cut off so that the rows would be nearly of a height, 
and on top were laid stringers and on them sleepers. On these were 
spiked down heavy narrow timbers, and on top of all a flat piece of iron 
for the rail, making what was called the strap iron rail. A considera- 
ble portion of the roadbed traversed a bog, and in driving the piles a 
pile-driver dropped 'down into the lower regions,) the machine never 




being recovered. The road continued for years to do a large business, 
but early in the seventies the Veazie road was bought up by the Euro- 
pean and North American Railway, a line which had just been built 
from Bangor to St. John, President Grant being present at its formal 
opening. The new owners removed the rolling stock and rails, and the 
running of trains permanently ceased. The roadbed of this historic 
line is now used as a bicycle path, having been acquired by Bangor's 
flourishing social organization, the Niben Club. 

Bangor has ever been a pioneer in transportation matters. Not only 
did the city have one of the first railroads in the country, but the pioneer 
iron steamship constructed in America was built to run to this port — 
and bore the name " Bangor." The steamship registered two hundred 
and thirty tons. She was built on the Delaware, her owners being the 
Bangor Steam Navigation Company of Maine, and the firm of Betts, 



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Harlan & Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Del., her builders. The " Ban. 
gor" was designed for passenger and freight service between Boston 
and Bangor; but, on the second trip from Boston, August 31, 1845, she 
caught fire off Castine and was burned to the water's edge. She was 
afterwards towed to Bath, rebuilt, and ran again on the line until 
December, 1846, when she was purchased by the United States Govern- 
ment for $ 28,975, and re-named the u Scourge," at the time of the 
breaking out of the Mexican war. 

The first bridge across the Penobscot connecting Bangor and Brewer 
was constructed in 1832 by the Bangor Bridge Company, at a cost of 



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FOREIGN STEAMSHIPS AT HIGH HEAD. 

$40,000. This bridge, as noted above, was swept away by the great 
freshet of 1846 ; and was replaced in 1847 by a new truss bridge at a 
cost of $31,000. In 1850 broke out the cholera plague in Bangor, which 
claimed one hundred and sixty-one victims, and for a time paralyzed all 
activity. At this time, the population of Bangor was about 12,000, and 
more than 3,000 children were enrolled in the public schools. In 1854 
the custom house and post-office building, constructed of granite was 
completed. The next year famous old Norombega Hall was built. 

The ten years preceding the Civil war were not years of marked pros- 
perity in Baiigor. Political excitement and uncertainty resulted in bus- 
iness depression. The sympathy of the Bangor people was heartily 



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and strongly with the anti-slavery cause. The presidental contest of 
1860, when Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, the city's foremost man, was a can- 
didate for vice-president on the Republican ticket with Lincoln, saw the 
most loyal enthusiasm in Bangor. When the dark days of war came 
on, the city was first and foremost in the state to respond to Lincoln's 
call for volunteers. The Second Regiment Maine Volunteers, enlisted 
in Bangor, was one of the first in the country to go to the front. It was 
largely composed of Bangor men. Gen. George Varney, now one of 
Bangor's leading business men, and the late Gen. C. W. Roberts, were 
colonels of this regiment. The list of brave and capable officers who 
went out from Bangor in the Civil war was a long one. About one-fifth 
of the male population of the city was enrolled in the Union armies, — 
in all, over 2700 men went to the front from here. About 300 of these 
men never returned. The city contributed over $300,000 in private and 
public ways, in supporting the cause of the Union. 

At the close of the war the valuation of the city of Bangor was 
$7,076,000, and the business for a time was exceptionally good and 
remained so till 1873, when the financial panic of that year had its 
depressing effect. The European and North American Railroad was 
opened to Vanceboro in 1871, giving Bangor a much wider zone trade. 
In 1872 there were 246,453,000 feet of lumber surveyed in Bangor, this 
being the highest figure ever reached. In 1869 the city celebrated its 
centennial with elaborate exercises, on which occasion the Hon. John 
A. Peters delivered one of the most eloquent speeches of his life. In 
1875 the water works system of the city was begun and the first under- 
taking completed two years later at a cost of $500,000, About this time 
the ice business began to play an important part in Bangor's enterprises, 
and several large ice houses were erected on the Penobscot near the 
city. It was during the eighties that the pulp business was inaugurated 
on the Penobscot, and so rapid has been the growth of pulp and paper 
manufacturing on the river that it has now become a foremost industry 
of this region. 

In the past decade Bangor has made giant strides in the line of 
advancement. The city has gained materially in population, stately 
business blocks have replaced many of the structures of other days, 
industries have multiplied in numbers and grown in importance, whole- 
sale and retail establishments have assumed more metropolitan charac- 
teristics, and the dwellings have gained in numbers, beauty of design 
and elegance of furnishings. 



THE BANGOR OF TO-DAY 



f'HE Bangor of to-day is a flourishing city of about 25,000 people, 
, and the towns immediately environing, including the city of 
Brewer across the river, swell the population to 40,000. As the 
shire town of a county embracing some 75,000 inhabitants ; as the 
trade centre and shipping point for a large and rich agricultural section 




Y. M. C. A. BUILDING, W. E. MANSUR, ARCHITECT. 

and for many thriving industrial communities ; as a point of conver- 
gence for numerous important railway and steamship lines, and a con- 
sequent tarrying place for great numbers of tourists, sportsmen and 
commercial travelers ; these together with the busy commerce of its 
port, the metropolitan character of its hotels and the compactness of 



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its business section, give to the city a much more populous appearance 
than the above figures would indicate. 

Located as the city is on the west bank of the imperial Penobscot at 
its junction with the less pretentious Kenduskeag, the business is large- 
ly in the valley while the surrounding heights afford picturesque sites 
for residences. The diversified aspect is heightened by the wealth of 
trees along the residential streets, and few localities are to be found 
with greater scenic attractions. From the high lands overlooking the 
city the view is particularly fine, the mountains which fill the eastern 



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CUSTOM HOUSE AND POST OFFICE. 

horizon making a fitting background to the picture. The Kenduskeag 
has, through much of its course, very precipitous banks, a notable il- 
lustration being the historic Lovers' Leap a mile above the city; and 
along this picturesque stream are innumerable gems of scenic beauty. 

Bangor has a fine harbor, easily accessible for vessels of large size ; 
and the scene in the open season along the docks, where crafts of vary- 
ing rig are loaded with lumber, ice and the diversified products of this 
region, is an animated one. Although thirty miles from the bay and 



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sixty miles from the ocean, the tide rises about seventeen feet, and there 
is a sufficient depth of water to float the largest of ocean steamships. 
The Penobscot river, whose waters unite with those of the bay of the 
same name, is a noble water highway, rising three hundred miles amid 
the mountains and forests of Xoithwestern Elaine. In its descent to 
the ocean, the volume of its waters is swelled by the East branch, 
Mattawamkeag, Passadumkeag, Piscataquis and Kenduskeag rivers, 
besides countless other streams. In the 8200 square miles drained by 
the Penobscot there are 1604 tributary streams indicated on the State 
map, and 467 lakes and ponds. It has been one of the traditions among 




MASONIC BLOCK. 

the Indians that the Penobscot river has 1000 islands, and it is safe to 
assert that there is at least one island for each day in the year. 

As a scenic river the Penobscot is unsurpassed and the sail through 
Hampden narrows, past the villages of Hampden and YVinterport ; past 
Frankfort and Prospect, with glimpses of their granite mountains of 
Hagan. Mosquito and Waldo; past attractive Bucksport, with Fort 
Knox standing as a guardian sentinel on the opposite bank; and onward 
through the picturesque narrows to where the waters of the noble river 
discharge into the magnificent bay of the same name, is a memorable 
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Bangor's City Hall — the Hersey Memorial Building- — is an imposing* 
edifice, which reflects credit upon the city. The corner stone was laid 
July 4, 1893, and the dedication took place just a year from that date. 
On the front of the building is a bronze bust of the late General Samuel 

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ELIJAH LOW HOSE HOUSE, STATE STREET. 

F. Hersey, donated by four sons. The General was long a prominent 
and wealthy business man of Bangor, and represented this district for 
two terms in Congress. He died in 1875 and left numerous bequests, 
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some years later, aggregated $100,000, this sum being subsequently 
appropriated by the city as an endowment for the Public Library. 
Later, through the efforts of Hon. F. O. Beal, then mayor of the city, 
the Hersey Fund was utilized to construct a Hersey Memorial Building, 
this being designed to meet all the requirements of a City Hall; and 
the city pays interest to the Public Library. 

The city is divided into seven wards, with one alderman and three 
councilmen to each ward, the principal officers consisting of Mayor, 



KING'S DAUGHTERS' HOME. 

Clerk, Treasurer and Collector, Street Commissioner, City Physician, 
Solicitor, Engineer, Chief of Police, Harbor Master, Superintendent of 
Schools, School Agent, Superintendent of Sewers, Chief Engineer of 
Fire Department, City Electrician and Superintendent of Wires, Board 
of Assessors, Inspector of Buildings, Board of Water Commissioners, 
Board of Cemetery Commissioners, Overseers of the Poor, Board 'of 
Health, Sewer Board and Park Commissioners. 
The property valuation of Bangor according to the Assessor's figures 






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is $14,402,998.03, an increase during the past decade of years exceeding 
three millions of dollars. The number of polls is 5,903, against 4,725 in 
1888. These figures are indicative of the marked advancement in popu- 
lation and property valuation in the past few years, while it is further- 
more to be considered that many of Bangor's largest manufacturing 
establishments, including all of the large saw-mills, with a single 
exception, are located outside the city limits. Furthermore, a very 
large proportion of Bangor's wealth consists of forest lands in remote 
sections of the state, and important industrial enterprises taxed else- 
where. 

Bangor has no floating debt, but a bonded debt of $720,000 as follows : 
Municipal bonds due in 1912, $50,000, and in 1904, $100,000; water 




CHILDEEN'S HOME. 

bonds due in 1905, $5i 000; and due in 1904 to 1910, inclusive, $70,000. 
Bangor's loan of $1,000,000 to the European & Xorth American Rail- 
way Company became due January 1, 1894, and it was taken care of by 
the Maine Central Railroad Company, who are the lessees of the road. 
The city's loan of $925,000 to the Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad Com- 
pany became due April 1, 1899, and this has been taken care of by the 
Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, who have purchased the road from the 
city. Of these large railroad loans aggregating $1,925,000, all are now 
out of the way with the exception of one bond of one thousand dollars 
on the E. & X. A. Railway account, the whereabouts of which has not 
been determined, and ten thousand dollars on the B. & P. loan, which 
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In 1S9S the City Treasurer and Collector received from all sources 
1826,827.39. The city holds trust funds to the amount of 8207,691.15 as 
follows: Hersey fund, 8100,000: Children's Home, 840,000; Home for 
Aged Women, 825,000; Mechanics' Association, 812,000; Wakefield 
fund for Indigent Women. 810,000 George Stetson fund for City Mis- 
sionary, 812,000: H. H. Fogg fund for City Missionary, 81,000: Bangor 
Fuel Society 84.000: Holton Medal fund, 82.000: Firemen's Relief 
fuud, 81,691.15. The city's credit is of th" !>c?t and her four and six 
per cent, bonds, not often in the market, bring a very high premium, 
while the three and a half per cent, bonds issued early this year sold at 




SUMMER THEATRE AT RIVERSIDE PARK. 

a price bringing the rate of interest nearly down to three per cent., the 
exact figures being 8 .0305. 

The city has in the vicinity of 200 miles of streets opened and sur- 
veyed, and is constantly keeping pace with the demand for new ones 
occasioned by the development of building tracts in the suburban dis- 
tricts. The paving of the leading business thoroughfares with granite 
blocks has been actively in progress for more than a decade of years 
and the business section is now substantially paved. A considerable 
portion of Main street has been macadamized and additional street im- 
provements are in contemplation. There are about thirty-one miles of 



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sewers constructed, and in the last few years extensive improvements 
in this direction have been inaugurated, while still farther extensions 
are constantly being made. The natural drainage of the city is excel- 
lent, as the resident portions are situated on high ground sloping to the 
banks of the Penobscot andpvenduskeag. 

There is a salaried fire department of 89 men, exclusive of the chief 
and three assistants. The equipment for extinguishing fires includes 
three steamers, five hose carriages and two hook and ladder trucks. 
There are 203 hydrants and 20 reservoirs. All the various steam-mills 
have powerful appliances of their own for putting out incipient fires. 
The city is provided with the Game well system of fire-alarm telegraph, 
and the various hose and steamer houses are connected by telephone. 




NIBEN CLUBHOUSE IN WINTER. 

There are 43 alarm boxes and 25 miles of wire. The efficiency of the 
department is shown by the remarkable freedom of the city from 
destructive conflagrations . 

Bangor has five newspapers and ten printing establishments that 
carry on a publishing business to a greater or less extent. The Whig 
and Courier is a morning paper, Republican in politics, issued daily and 
weekly ; The Bangor Daily News is a Republican morning paper, issued 
daily, and with a semi-weekly edition ; The Commercial is a Democratic 
evening daily, and with a weekly edition ; The Industrial Journal, 
issued weekly, is devoted to manufacturing, commercial, and hotel and 
resort interests, etc. ; Maine Sportsman, a monthly devoted to fish and 
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The Bangor Public Library is one of the foremost institutions of its 
kind, and contains on its shelves 45,715 volumes. The nucleus of this 
valuable collection of books was conveyed to the city in trust by the 
Mechanics' Association, by whom it was collected during an existence 
covering nearly sixty years. The Hersey Fund having been devoted by 
the city to the purpose of the Library, the institution now has an 
endowment of 8112,000 for its maintenance. During the past year the 
number of books delivered for home use were 44,297, and for use in the 
reading room 34,823, making a total aggregate of 79,120 books issued in 
the year. Additions are being made continually by purchase and dona- 




A TOW OX THE PENOBSCOT. 

tion, and this is the home as well of the Bangor Historical Society. The 
collections of this society are kept at the Library rooms, and every- 
thing of historical interest, especially if related to local matters, is 
added to the collection. The society has lately procured a large book- 
case to be used only for articles on Bangor and its people. In the near 
future it is the confident expectation that the Bangor Public Library 
will, have a substantial home of its own, as a lot of land has been 
donated for the purpose of a building site, with an excellent prospect of 
securing funds sufficient to erect an edifice creditable alike to the 
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The Bangor Opera House is unsurpassed for its beauty and appoint- 
ments by any outside the largest cities. In it are witnessed the best 
stars and companies that travel in New England, and it is well patron- 
ized by the Bangorians, who have long been noted for their appreciation 
and support of opera and the drama. The various public halls are also 
much resorted to for concerts, lectures, balls, fairs and other entertain- 
ments which, together with numerous small festive gatherings and 
private parties, make the social life of the city attractive alike to the 
residents and guests from abroad. The auditorium, erected a few years 




ENGLISH TRAMP STEAMSHIPS. 

since, is the largest building of its kind in the state, and here each fall 
is held the Maine Music Festival, under the direction of W. R. Chapman 
of New York. 

The Eastern Maine State Fair Association have fitted up at a large 
expense one of the finest and best appointed fair grounds and driving 
parks in New England. The location is Maplewood, only a mile from 
the business centre, on an eminence overlooking the city and harbor 
and commanding a magnificent view of the surrounding country. Here 
every season, in late summer or early fall, is held a great fair where are 



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brought together for exhibition and study the agricultural and indus- 
trial products of the richest sections of the state. Here, too, are seen 
upon these occasions many of the finest horses and other blooded stock 
that stand in New England and the Maritime Provinces, and some of the 
most exciting trotting and running races witnessed anywhere. At other 
times during the year Maplewood Park is the scene of horse races, base- 
ball, polo and bicycle tournaments, and numerous other athletic sports 
and outdoor amusements. 
Bangor is especially famous for its drives, and in the towns imme- 




A RIVER VIEW. 

diately contiguous to the city the scenic attractions include mountain, 
lake, pond and stream, conspicuous among them being Pushaw lake, 
Phillips lake, Green lake, Eddington pond, Holbrook's pond, Orring- 
ton pond, Ilermon pond, Black Cap mountain, Swett mountain, and 
Saunders' mountain, while the city itself has its Lovers' Leap and its 
Highlands. 

Bangor enjoys the unique distinction of being the only place of 
size on the globe where salmon fly-fishing can be successfully prac- 
ticed within the city's limits, and in one season a Bangor lumber 



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manufacturer brought to the gaff and successfully landed twenty- 
seven salraoD, aggregating 500 pounds in weight. The Bangor salmon 
pool, whence are taken all the salmon caught with a fly on the 
Penobscot, is situated about a mile above the city and just below the 
falls that span the river at the Bangor Water Works dam. 

Bangor is the home of many sportsmen and is the headquarters 
in this section for sportsmen's supplies of all description. Nearly all 
the parties of sportsmen who in the season visit the great wilderness 




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of northern and eastern Maine make this their rendezvous and procure 
their outfits here. Moose and deer as the result of wise game laws 
are multiplying rapidly. The state is now a great deer park and so 
numerous are the deer as to be almost a nuisance to farmers. Of 
all the wild game that roams the forest the moose is easily king, and 
although fears have in the past been expressed that this noble animal 
would become extinct yet they are today more plenty than for many 
years past. Plover and woodcock shooting may be had in the imme- 



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diate vicinity of the city, while partridges abound in the surrounding 
woods ; and ducks and other water-fowl are numerous in the river 
and bay and the nearby ponds and streams. The angling is also 
of the best and the lakes and streams near by furnish superior 
landlocked salmon, trout, bass, perch and pickerel fishing. 

Bangor has long been noted for its hospitalities to strangers, and 
for the superior excellence of its hotel accommodations. The Bangor 
House, II. C. Chapman & Son proprietors, is the largest public hos- 
telry in Maine and in its appointments is unsurpassed by any hotel 
outside of the largest cities. The Penobscot Exchange, Moon & 




COURT HOUSE AND JAIL. 

Cratty, proprietors, is a landmark of the city and enjoys a good 
patronage. The Windsor Hotel is another oldtime hotel but is kept 
thoroughly up to date by its enterprising landlord, Frank W. Durgin. 
The Bangor Exchange is centrally located and after being closed for 
a short period has been reopened under new management. The St. 
James Hotel, Chris Toole proprietor, has accommodations for many 
and he also has a resort hotel on the shores of Pushaw lake. There 
are numerous other smaller houses, several of which are well kept 
and have a good reputation. Among these are the Jerrard, Wilson, 
Vesta and Lowder. There are also some of the best restaurants to 



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be found east of Boston, and numerous private boarding houses of 
all grades. 

The city is also noted for its fine residences and beautifully shaded 
streets, which indeed, together with its location, extent of its busi- 
ness interests and commercial advantages, have given it the merited 
appellation of u Queen City of the East. " The climate is cool and 




HON. ARTHUR CHAPIN, MAYOR. 

delightful during the summer months, and the fogs which are so 
prevalent at certain seasons in localities nearer the coast are here 
almost entirely unknown. There are many pleasant drives in the 
vicinity, and numerous lake and mountain resorts within a few miles 
of the city, provided with suitable accommodations for excursion 
and picnic parties. The regular lines of steamers and the numbers of 
excursion boats which ply the waters of the river and bay during the 



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season render every point of interest along the coast available and 
easy of access, and furnish residents and visitors every facility for 
enjoying the refreshing breezes and charming scenery for which 
the picturesque Penobscot is famous. All these and other inherent 
attractions — its natural scenery, healthfulness, perfect drainage, pure 
water, and the culture and social nature of its citizens — combined 
with its central location as point of departure for all noted health, 
pleasure and fishing resorts of eastern and northern Maine and New 
Brunswick, render the Queen City one of the most desirable places 
of sojourn, either for the permanent resident or the summer tourist. 
Public Parks. 

Not the least attractive feature of the city is her public parks, of 



THE BUSINESS SECTION FROM THE UNITARIAN CHURCH. 

which there is a good number. Perhaps the most important of these, 
because of their size and location, are Broadway, Forest Avenue, Cen- 
tre, Davenport and Union. All of them are exceedingly well kept and 
great ornaments to the city. 

Broadway Park is situated on both sides of that thoroughfare and 
residents on French. Pine, North and South Park streets look out upon 
its green surface. There is at this park a tree which, could it but con- 
verse, might tell much of the country of long ago. It is a gigantic elm, 
evidently very old, its high limbs as they leave the main trunk being 
bolted together to preserve them from splitting. Elaborate plans for 
the improvement of Broadway Park have been made by F. M. Blaisdell, 



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Boston's famous landscape designer, and these will, it is expected, be 
carried into execution in the near future. 

Forest Avenue Park is in the eastern part of the city. It will soon be 
by far the handsomest of them all. It is large and surrounded by some 
of the finest elms and maples in Bangor. Extensive improvements are 
well under way here. Gracefully winding paths, well gravelled, lead 
throughout the park, the south lawns are well kept and seats here and 



there make delightful resting places. With the artificial pond, which 
will mark the centre of the park, installed, the Forest Avenue Park will 
be one of the most beautiful spots in the city. 

It is very likely that because of its location, more people who are in 
town for a short time only, see Centre Park rather than the others. It 
ccupies a most conspicuous position in the business portion, facing on 




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East Market square. It is a triangular piece of ground between Park, 
Centre and Harlow streets, its velvety lawns, handsome maples and com- 
fortable seats being very attractive. In Centre, as well as in Broadway 
and Union parks, are erected band stands, from which throughout the 
summer public concerts are given. 

Davenport and Union parks are smaller but very pretty ones, both 
being in the western portion of the city. Union Park, on the street of 
the same name, is in the rear of the Bangor Hoii<e, making the view 
from that hostelry, as, indeed, all residences in the vicinity, delightful. 
Davenport Park is on Main street at its junction with Cedar. Here, 
more than any other, have masses of shrubs and flower beds been 
brought into prominence and the effect is beautiful. The park occupies 
a noticeable location and adds greatly to that section. 

Though the most important, these are not all the parks of the city, 
for scattered here and there, all over Bangor, are pieces of public 
ground which, under the supervision of the park commission, have been 
transformed iuto places of great beauty and lend much pleasure to a 
stroll about the city. The installation of public parks in a munici- 
pality is evidence of the finer sense of public opinion, and is in marked 
contrast to the sentiment which existed in many cities years ago, when 
land was considered wasted unless put to some money-making use. 
Bangor's Water Works. 

The city now has what is undoubtedly one of the finest systems of 
water works in New England. The pumping station and dam is situ- 
ated some way up the river above the city proper, and from here is 
pumped, at great pressure, an abundance of excellent water all over 
Bangor. Great and important changes have been inaugurated during 
recent years. A new filter and pumps have been installed, new mains 
have been laid and an enormous standpipe built upon Thomas' hill. 

The improvements to the system are the result of great expenditures 
of time, thought and money, but the results are well worth it all. The 
new pump is of the "Deane"' manufacture and has a capacity of 
5,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours, though it is at present necessary 
to pump but 3,000,000. The pressure here is one hundred and ten 
pounds. This pump is the largest power pump in New England, the 
term implying those run by water power and not by steam. To keep 
the powerful machine in operation it was necessary to install new tur- 
bines, which require a large power house of brick and a new flume and 
head-gate house. To give room for the flume, ninety feet of the dam 
was removed. There are sixteen gates in the head-gate house. Of the 
five new turbines only two are required to run the pump, so there are 



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three in reserve, in case another pump should be needed at some dis- 
tant day. These wheels could, and very likely will be utilized by the 
city for running the dynamos that furnish the city street lights. The 
dynamos are stationed here at the water works, being run by independ- 
ent turbines ; but the day is not far away when more lights, and so 
more dynamos, and, of coarse, more power will be required. Then 
these extra turbines will be of great value. A Warren mechanical filter 
has also been installed, which does excellent service. The filter has a 
contract capacity of 5,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours, but has dis- 
posed of as much as 6,000,000 in that time. 

A great addition to the equipment of the system is the stand pipe at 
Summit Park, on Thomas' Hill, the highest point of land in Bangor. It 
is a circular steel structure, seventh-five feet in diameter and fifty feet 
high, but inclosed by a wooden building of considerably larger dimen- 
sions. It has a capacity of 1,654,000 gallons, enough to supply the city 
for one day in case it should be necessary to shut down the pump. The 
tank is kept filled continually. There is a pressure of twenty-five 
pounds at the base of the stand pipe, which is filled by a twenty-inch 
main directly from the pumping station. With such a splendid water 
system it will be readily seen that the city has not only the best of ser- 
vice for all ordinary purposes, but splendid protection in case of fire as 
well. There are now nearly forty miles of main pipe, while there are 
two hundred and two hydrants connected with the works. 

The City's Churches. 

Bangor gives its support to nineteen different religious organizations 
and quite a number of denominations are represented. Of these, in the 
city proper there are three Congregational, two Baptist, one Free Bap- 
tist, two Methodist Episcopal, one Episcopal, two Roman Catholic, one 
Universalist, one LTnitarian, an Advent, a Jewish Synagogue and a 
church of the Christian denomination. There are others in the suburbs 
of the city. 

The oldest church society in the city is that known as the First Con- 
gregational, or First Parish. Its edifice is on Broadway, in an excellent 
location, and near it is a fine parsonage for the use of the pastor. The 
society was organized in 1811. In January, 1818, the First Baptist Soci- 
ety came into being, building its house of worship at the junction of 
Centre and Harlow streets. The third in point of organization was the 
Unitarian, which church was erected on Union street, at the corner of 
Main. 

And so, one after another, as the city grew, churches were built and 
the influence which they have exerted in the community has been felt. 




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The church structures are excellent edifices, some of them very elabo- 
rate, and containing particularly beautiful memorial windows. Parson- 
ages are maintained in connection with a number. 

Parochial schools for boys and for girls are maintained in connection 
with the two Roman Catholic churches. St. Xavier's Academy, a con- 
vent where girls are instructed, is situated on State street, being con- 
nected with St. John's church. On First street the foundation is now 
going in for a new convent near St. Mary's. 

Bangor has sent to near and foreign fields many able ministers, this 
city being the home of the Bangor Theological Seminary. The build- 
ings and campus are between Hammond and Union streets, a beautiful 
situation. The Seminary has a large number of students, with instruc- 
tors of high rank and has a very fine library, comprising about 21,000 
volumes. The opportunities for athletics are many, as there has quite 
recently been added an excellent gymnasium. 

A valuable adjunct to the churches of the city is the Young Men's 
Christian Association, which has its home in a beautiful building on the 
corner of Court and Hammond streets. The work of this institution 
cannot be commended too highly. It has a large membership and its 
scope of usefulness is exceedingly broad. Educational classes under 
excellent instructors are maintained during the fall and winter season, 
and the association has in its building a very fine gymnasium, in charge 
of a competent director. Such is the management that for a small 
amount young men are given valuable advantages for benefiting them- 
selves, both mentally and physically, as well as spiritually. 

Bangor's School System. 

Among the many inducements for people who are moving toward the 
business centres, to locate permanently in Bangor, is her system of 
public schools. Dating from the earliest days of the incorporation as a 
town, is the establishment of schools that steadily increased in efficiency 
up to the year 1835, when the City Council voted a free High school for 
boys. This was taught by Daniel Worcester. Of him a writer in 1885 
says : " His broad-minded administration for twenty years is in pleasant 
remembrance by many sons of Bangor, who have carried out into 
active life as much of value from his personal contact as from the 
studies he so ably taught. " 

This writer goes on to say "this school was kept for a few terms 
in the upper story of the brick School house on State St; but in the 
winter of 1836 occupied the first story of the brick building on Pros- 
pect St. erected for it. Here, for a short time, four or five girls 
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High School. One of these school girls, Mary Bradley, now Mrs. 
Dr. Morrison, still survives. The establishment of this school ante- 
dates by nearly twenty years, any similar public provision for the 
higher education of girls in the city of Boston, which in the pardon- 
able conceit of its citizens, is supposed to lead the world in culture. 
The union of these schools twenty years after was consummated, 
the school board being comnneed that those who are to live and 
work together in society may well associate in the foundation train- 
ing for a true and noble manhood and womanhood. To William 
Abbott, for many years chairman of the schoolboard and mayor at 




BANGOR HOUSE DINING HALL. 

the time of his death in 1849, Bangor is largely indebted for its early 
progressive educational system, and in his honor the square on Harlow 
St. is worthily named. " 

This High School, begun on so generous and broad a policy, has 
developed into the well equipped and planned school of the present 
day. With many elective courses it furnishes opportunity for youth 
of every walk in life to obtain a thorough and extensive education. 
Its science department is not surpassed in any school in New England, 
its laboratories being modern, well furnished and skillfully arranged. 
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respectful admiration of the community. The college preparatory 
courses are so arranged that pupils can prepare for any college in 
New England. The percentage of attendance at this school reaches 
the extraordinary ration of one in eight of the total school atten- 
dance, a record which is matched by only few communities in the 
country. 

The elementary schools are well equipped and the teaching force 
is of unusual skill and successful experience. Public kindergartens 




ABIiOTT SQUARE HIGH SCHOOL. 

form an important feature of the system. Drawing and music are 
factors in the culture and training of the children. 

The school buildings each year, add to the creditable public struc- 
tures. The Palm St. school house has twenty rooms with a seating 
capacity for one thousand children. This building is very handsome 
in architectural design and beautiful in interior finish. Its ventila- 
tion and sanitation are perfect in working power, and the finishing 
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well being of the children. It was built under the administration of 
Mayor Charles L. Snow at a total cost of $75,000. The Union Square 
building is one of very handsome design, most conveniently arranged 
and capable of seating about 700 pupils. There are various smaller 
buildings on Pond, Bower and Center sts. that are well planned and 
built. In the city are thirty-two school buildings. 

The school administration consists of a board of five. Dr. D. A. 
Robinson, Rev. E. F. Pember, Thos. W. Burr, Dr. D. McCann. and 
Mary S. Snow. Of this board Dr. D. A Robinson, its present chair- 
man, has been a member for nineteen years, and Mr. Thos. W. Burr 
for fourteen. Politics has never entered into the administration of 
the schools in any form, and to this fact is attributable the harmonious 
progress of the work done by them. The city government has in- 
variably put into it persons of high character and of disinterested 
loyalty to the public school policy with the satisfactory result of 
possessing an unexcelled school system worthy of the city whose 
cause and welfare it serves. 

The high standard of Bangor's schools is due in a large degree to 
the able and untiring labors of the talented Superintendent Miss 
Mary S. Snow. 

Fraternal, Social and Charitable. 

The city's fraternal and social organizations are many and generally 
very prosperous. New chapters are continually being organized, and 
the membership of the old are rapidly increasing. About all the organ- 
izations of prominence are represented in Bangor by one or more local 
lodges. Masonic societies of the city have a total membership of about 
1500. The Odd Fellows have a combined membership of over 1100. 
Besides these are many others of more or less importance. There are 
two Grand Army Posts, and each year the ranks grow thinner and 
thinner. 

Of social organizations there are many, among them the Tarratine, 
the Melita, the Madockawando, the Niben Club, the Penobscot, the 
Masonic, the Carroll, and numerous others. All of the clubs have ideal 
quarters, some luxurious, and are very popular meeting places of mem- 
bers. One of the newest as regards organization is the Niben Club, but 
its successful growth has been rapid from the start. Its delightful 
bicycle path to the club house on the shore of Pushaw lake has become 
famous. The Cliff Lodge Club is a similar organization, with its house 
on Hiues pond in Orrington. 

Among the ladies are various club organizations that are important 
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prominent of these are the Athene, the Norurnbega and Nineteenth Cen- 
tury. These clubs follow systematic courses of study, taking a greatly 
varied list of subjects, and their influence upon the city is admirable. 
Their membership is large and rapidly increasing. 

There is no doubt but that the poor and needy within the confines of 
Bangor are as admirably cared for as is possible. The city, itself, pro- 
vides in numerous ways for them. The City Farm is a model in equip- 
ment and management, and takes admirable care of the unfortunates 
that are obliged to go there. Then there are various charitable organi- 
zations which do a great deal for the poor, such as the Bangor Fuel 
Society which provides fuel for those unable to procure any. The 




PALM STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL. W. E. MANSUR, ARCHITECT. 

Children's Home does a v^ork of great magnitude and value. 

Then there are the Home for Aged Women, the King's Daughters' 
Home, the Associated Charities, as well as others, each of which fills a 
most impoitant place, and fills it ably. 

The Hospitals. 

The city is very fortunate in possessing such an admirable institution 
as the Eastern Maine General Hospital. The physicians and surgeons 
composing the staff of the hospital are men of experience and skill 
and today the institution is better equipped than ever. Through the 
aid of the legislature and benevolent individuals there has just been 
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the work carried on. The hospital is beautifully situated on State 
street, overlooking a long stretch of the Penobscot, a most delight- 
ful view. The original building was formerly the home of the city's 
lamented poet, Mrs. Frances L. Mace. 

Upon a high hill, not far from the Water Works, and surrounded by 
a beautiful expanse of country, the Eastern Maine Insane Hospital is 
being erected. The main building is completed and work is now in pro- 
gress upon two large wings. The buildings are of brick and stone. It 
will be a fine hospital when done, and those unfortunate ones obliged 




UNION SQUARE GRAMMAR SCHOOL. 

to go there will have the most skillful service. The institution is badly 
needed, the only other in the state, that at Augusta, having long been 
taxed far beyond its capacity. Surely, if quiet and pleasant surround- 
ings can have anything to do with the recovery of those afflicted with 
this malady, the patients at the new hospital will have a great advant- 
age, for the view from here is very beautiful. The distant hills, the 
glistening river and the rolling fields all combine in making a most 
ideal location for an institution of this kind, while its distance from the 
sounds of the city insures the needed quiet. 




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TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. 



Bangor early gave attention to the matter of improving her transpor- 
tation facilities, and she had her railroad when most of the proud cities 
of to-day knew nothing of such things. As early as 1836 her enterpris- 
ing citizens built a railroad to Old Town, a dozen miles up the river, 
with a view to aiding the development of her natural resources, :ind 
this, one of the earliest railroads in America, prospered for nearly a 
third of a century. Since the early days in her business career Bangor 
has invested heavily in railroad enterprises, to advance her inierests. 
Her credit was loaned and her influence exerted to change in her favor, 
in the construction of the road from the Kennebec, now known as the 
Maine Central, the main thoroughfare of the State. Later she built a 
railroad of her own, eighty miles up into the wilderness to Moosehead, 
Maine's greatest lake. Since its completion some of Bangor's citizens 
have built another road intersecting the latter and running north twenty 
miles towards Mt. Katahdin, reaching the slate quarries of Brownville 
and the Katahdin Iron Works. In 1871 another important railroad 
was consummated, in which Bangor invested capital to the extent 
of a million dollars. This was the European & Xorth American Bail- 
way connecting Bangor with the city of St. John, and linking together 
the railway systems of ihe United States and New Brunswick. A dozen 
years later the city's business men aided by subscription in the con- 
struction of the Shore Line Bailroad into Hancock county, now oper- 
ated as the Mt. Desert Branch of the Maine Central Bailroad. Within 
a half-dozen years through the enterprise of some of Bangor's public 
spirited business men, Aroostook county has been brought into direct 
railroad communication with Bangor through the construction of the 
Bangor & Aroostook Bailroad, this great system having numerous 
branches to important points in northern Maine, it having also absorbed 
the Bangor & Piscataquis Bailroad. In recent years there has been no 
more important railroad enterprise inaugurated in New England than 
that of the Bangor & Aroostook,- and under its enterprising and pro- 
gressive management it has become a potential factor in the develop- 
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Especialty welcome to Bangor citizens has been the completion and 
successful operation of the Washington County Railroad, bringing our 
city into easy reach of the thriving cities and towns of Maine's sunrise 
county. 

Bangor business men, ever elert to adopt the newest methods, inaugu- 
rated in this city the first electric railroad in Maine and more recently 
electric roads have been constructed reaching Hampden and South 
Brewer on the south, and Old Town and Corinth on the north. These 
electric lines bring Bangor and the territory immediately contiguous 
into close touch, and the benefits accruing therefrom are far-reaching. 
Maine Central Railroad. 

Stretching out across the state from Portland to Bangor and branch- 




EXCHANGE STREET RAILROAD STATION. 

ing out in many directions, the Maine Central Railroad has a large and 
important system, taking in the most populous and busy sections in the 
state. The main line runs to this city, but from Cumberland Junction 
to Waterville there are two routes, one via Augusta and the other by 
the way of Lewiston. From the main lines there are branches to Bath 
and Rockland, Farmington, Skowhegan, Belfast and to Foxcroft, where 
connection is made with the Piscataquis division of the B. & A. East- 
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name, a distance of about 114 miles , where connection is made with the 
Canadian Pacific road for the Maritime Provinces. Southward from 
this city runs the branch to Mount Desert and to Bucksport. At Wash- 
ington Junction connection is made with trains of the new road to 
Washington county towns. Such a network of railway system toward 
the east, south and west gives Bangor perfect facilities for rail ship- 
ment and the extent of the traffic carried to and through the city ha s 
reached gigantic proportions. 

As an indication of its extent it is interesting to know that during the 
summer there are seventy-two regular trains in and out of Bangor over 



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M. C. R. R. BRIDGE OVER THE PENOBSCOT. 

Maine Central rails, while many specials are run, six or eight being not 
unusual during a single day. Of the regulars, fifty-six are passenger ; 
twelve running between the city and the west and forty-four on the 
east. Of the sixteen daily freights, six are on the western tracks and 
ten on the east. These figures are significant as to the volume of busi- 
ness between Bangor and Eastern Maine. This city is the home berth 
for many of the road's locomotives, and thirty-two of the big iron steeds 
take their Sunday rest in Bangor. Five shifting engines are kept busy 
during the day in the yards and two during the night. With the excep- 
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or controls very nearly the whole water front from the Water Works 
to High Head, a distance of about three miles. The extensive lumber 
dock privileges above the point where the line of wharves ceases are let 
to the lumber manufacturers. 

That the company appreciates the importance of this busy point in 
its system is amply proven by the extent of the improvements to its 
property here, continually going on. During the past few years a large 
amount of double tracking has been done, both east and west. The 
yards have been very materially enlarged and with the addition of 
numerous extra tracks has given greatly needed facilities, there now 
being fourteen miles of tracks in the Bangor yards. A splendid steel 
bridge has replaced the wooden structure which for years spanned the 
Penobscot between this city and Brewer. When the eastern yard was 
•enlarged, the company put in a new steel approach to the highway 
bridge, which also connects the two cities. The approach is directly 
over the Maine Central traks. A fine wharf was built not long since 
near City Point at the mouth of the Kenduskeag, for the handling of 
lumber from up river and the steel draw bridge across the Kenduskeag 
is of comparatively recent construction. From the Maine Central 
wharves at the western depot to Eagle wharf at High Head, is a long 
stretch of water front which is gradually being filled in. When this 
work is completed, a splendid series of wharves of great value will be 
-available. 

As indicative of the magnitude of the passenger and freight traffic 
of the city of Bangor over the Maine Central, a few figures are in- 
teresting. For the year ending June 30, 1899, the number of pas- 
sengers carried from the pity was 187,566, an increase of 32,460 
over the preceeding year. There were 181,834 tons of freight for- 
warded from Bangor during that period, which means an increase 
of 32,081 tons over the year previous, the figures for that year 
being 149,750. The net increase in tonnage of freight received and 
forwarded for the year is 24,687 tons. These freight figures refer 
to business done at both Maine Central stations in this city and do 
not include the business way-billed or ticketed through Bangor to 
or from points beyond. Thus it will be seen that Bangor has 
ample reason to feel that her spot on the map of the Maine Cen- 
tral road is well occupied. 

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. 

The public far and wide has watched with deep interest the rapid 
growth of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad. It has been set down in 
the Maine wilderness like a giant hand, and its mighty fingers are work- 



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ing their way farther and farther into rich sections, grasping the busi- 
ness of those localities and ultimately bringing it into or through Ban- 
gor, thus giving to a hitherto remote section of the state direct connec- 
tion with the metropolis of Eastern Maine. 

The year 1895 was the first in which this new and important railroad 
was operated, the original line reaching diagonally up through Penobscot 
and Aroostook counties to Houlton, thence up to Presque Isle and Cari- 
bou, taking in many of the fertile and prosperous Aroostook towns, and 
so giving them all connection, one with another and with Bangor. 

Such was the original road, but in the short time of its existence it 
has pushed branch lines out, here and there, and more are in prospect. 
The largest branch is forty-three miles in length, reaching up to Ash- 
land and taking in Masardis and other towns of lesser importance. It 
is a most important feeder of the road, going as it does into a very 
important section where transportation is a great necessity. At Ash- 
land is one of the largest and most modern band saw lumber mills in 
New England and an enormous amount of its lumber has come into 
Bangor lor shipment away. Another branch, one of the earliest laid, 
runs to Fort Fairfield ; another to Limestone, while the steel of still 
another is now being laid to Van Buren. The Patten and Sherman road 
connects with the Bangor & Aroostook system at the latter town and 
is quite an important feeder, though a short line. Another short branch 
takes one into the Katahdin Iron Works region leaving the main road 
at Brownville. 

That part of the B. & A. road which runs to Moosehead lake, is 
known as the Piscataquis Division. It was formerly the Bangor & Pis- 
cataquis Railroad and was leased by the B. & A., who subsequently pur" 
chased it. It connects with the main line at Milo Junction, with the 
Dexter branch of the Maine Central at Foxcroft, and with a short nar- 
row-gage road at Monson Junction which leads into Monson. Green- 
ville Junction is its terminal, where it connects with the Canadian 
Pacific Railway. 

Millinockett is destined to be one of the most important points in the 
B. & A. system. At that place is being built what will be the largest 
pulp and paper mill in the world. That the road appreciates the 
value of the enterprise, as related to its own traffic, is shown by the 
fact that $50,000 have been expended upon a yard there, enough 
tracks being laid to accommodate 500 cars. 

Thus it may be readily seen that there is a tremendous and broad field 
of usefulness for the B. & A. road. Its traffic, both passenger and 
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elaborate improvements which the road has undergone of late. A large 
amount of new rolling stock has been added and now travellers can 
journey right into the heart of the wilds of Maine in through vestibule 
trains and Pullman cars. The service is better than at any previous 
time in the history of the road, and everything possible is done for the 
pleasure and comfort of its patrons. On the Piscataquis Division a 
large number of trestles have been filled in, wooden bridges replaced by 
steel ones, and a splendid viaduct built, besides the straightening of 
many curves and otherwise improving the road bed. The travel of the 
B. & A. system is very heavy, particularly during the tourist, fishing 
and hunting seasons, and enormous quantities of freight are sent up 
from Bangor to all parts of the system, while immense shipments of 
lumber, potatoes and the diversified products of the region are sent 
down. The road is deservedly prosperous. 

The Sunrise Route. 

The building of the Washington County Railroad, or the "Sunrise 
Route " as it is coming to be called, has been a tremendous factor in the 
upbuilding of that section and, it is confident^ expected, will prove of 
no little help to Bangor. The line leaves the Mt. Desert branch of the 
Maine Central at Washington June ion, and proceeding east, skirts the 
coast, taking in a large number of towns of growing importance. Its 
eastern terminal is at Calais, w T hile there is an important side line to 
Eastport, the city of sardines. 

Splendid opportunity is given the people of Washington count} T to 
trade to a large extent with Bangor merchants, and much business will 
be brought to the city from that section. There is a very cordial feeling 
existing between the business men of Bangor and those along the line 
of the new road, brought about largely through the efforts of the Boards 
of Trade, and business relations are sure to prosper. The road com- 
menced running late in 189S, but in the time it has been in operation it 
has proved to be a great success. It is excellently equipped and 'the 
road bed is in fine shape. 

Canadian Pacific Railway. 

Though crossing the state many miles to the north of Bangor, the 
Canadian Pacific Railway, through its connections with the Bangor & 
Aroostook system, has given the city excellent opportunity for ship- 
ping goods to all points west. The road crosses the Katahdin Iron 
Works line at Brownville Junction and also connects with the Piscata- 
quis division at Greenville Junction. It is now possible to seek markets 
for goods of local manufacture in the important cities along the great 
lakes, and in fact through to points in the west and northwest. The 




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Canadian Pacific also, through its connection with the Maine Central 
Railroad, brings Bangor into immediate communication with the Mari- 
time Provinces. 

Electkic Roads. 

Bangor has her share of electric roads and they are good ones. This 
city has the honor of having the first electric street railroad in Maine 
and of the extensive system now controlled by the Public Works Com- 
pany appropriate ment'on is made elsewhere in these pages. Another 
line connects the city with Old Town, twelve miles up the river, passing- 
through Veazie and Orono. Another, the Bangor, Hampden and Win- 
terport road, runs down the river as far as Hampden at present, but in 
the not far distant future will stretch to Winterport and perhaps far- 
ther; and a third, the Penobscot Central, up the valley of the Kendus- 
keag to Corinth, twenty miles, and is projected six miles further to 
Charleston. Of these the Bangor, Orono & Old Town road does a 
passenger business only; the Hampden line, both passenger and freight, 
as does the Penobscot Central, though at present this last line does more 
in the freight traffic than otherwise. 

The roads all have splendid fields in which to operate. Bangor is the 
natural trading and banking centre for the people of all these towns, 
and with such admirable facilities for reaching the city quickly and 
cheaply, they come in great numbers, to the benefit of Bangor business 
houses. The Penobscot Central is carrying an ever increasing amount 
of freight from the towns through which it passes, the road being a 
great convenience to those who wish to place the products of their 
farms and factories in the city markets, or ship them away by rail or 
water. The B. H. & W. has like opportunity with the towns along its 
route, but enjoys also the ability to extend its iron to Winterport, 
which is below the point where the winter's ice in the river ceases. 
Should this be done, as very likely will be the case, easy connection can 
be made with the steamers of the Boston & Bangor Steamship Com- 
pany, in this way readily making possible the receipt and shipment of 
goods by water all the year through. The B. O. & O. runs through a 
prosperous and populous country and ever since its establishment has 
been a striking success. There is a very large amount of travel between 
Bangor and these up-river towns, and the electrics are largely 
patronized. 

These roads, like the local street railway, are run by trolley, with the 
exception of the Central, which is a good deal of a novelty in this part 
of the country, the cars being propelled by electricity generated by the 
Patton system, which enables each to produce its own power, thus 



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doing away with overhead trolley and central power station. Bangor 
people appreciate the value of these important allies to the city's 
business. 

The Boston & Bangor Steamship Company. 
It would, indeed, be difficult to find a steamship line that gave better 
service and took more pains to give its patrons the best of everything 
than does the Boston & Bangor Steamship Company. The line has 
been, and continues to be, a most important factor in the development 
and advancement of Bangor and the Penobscot valley. The benefit of 
the line to this section was evident as soon as it began to operate and it 
has grown with the country. 




STEAMSHIP PENOBSCOT. 

The Boston & Bangor Steamship Company is the oldest established 
steamship company in the United States, having commenced regular 
communication between Boston and landings on Penobscot river in the 
year of 1824, which it has maintained with constantly increasing facili- 
ties for more than seventy years. 

The Boston & Bangor Steamship Company, by connecting Bangor 
directly with Boston, has enabled manufacturers and merchants of this 
city to receive, promptly, shipments from the Hub of New England; 
thus taking advantage of business opportunities in that metropolis and 
giving this city the benefit thereof. 

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entering the bay skirt it upon the western shore, going into Belfast, 
Camden and on to Rockland, which is the final Maine port, leaving 
which they pass out into the open sea, following the coast for a while, 
but soon taking their course directly for Massachusetts bay. 

In addition to the line between Boston and Bangor the company 
maintains a deservedly popular one from Rockland to Mt. Desert, which 
passes between Vinal and North Haven, among the picturesque islands 
south of Deer Isle and on to Swan's Island, where the steamer touches 



"CITY OF BANGOR " AND " PENOBSCOT " PASSING IN THE NARROWS. 

and then leaves for Mt. Desert, making landings at Bass, Southwest 
and Bar Harbors. The sail is a delightful one and extremely conven- 
ient for travellers coming from the west by water to lower Penobscot 
and Frenchman's bays. 

One need not fear of being extravagant in giving praise to the line 
maintained by the Boston & Bangor Steamship Company. Passing 
through the course it does, it enjoys the most beautiful of scenery, but 
passengers and shippers demand something more than scenery. They 






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must have the most painstaking and particular service, and the great 
popularity of this line proves that they receive it. The steamers now 
in commission are the City of Bangor, Penobscot and Mt. Desert, all of 
them fine crafts. They are splendidly equipped for the service, the two 
former alternating between Boston and Bangor and the latter running 
on the Roekland-Mt. Desert route. 

But of them all the City of Bangor is by far the superior. She is the 
largest of her kind east of New York, being 268 feet on the keel, length 
over all 278i feet, extreme breadth 68 feet, while her depth from hurri- 
cane deck is about 42 feet. So it will be seen she is a sizable craft and 
as the very best of material went into her hull, upper works and 
engines, she is able, strong and speedy, and is second only in size to the 
palatial steamers of Long Island Sound. She was launched in the 
spring of 1894, from the yard of William McKie at East Boston, and 
made her maiden trip to the Penobscot early in the summer of that 
year. 

Her complete suit of colors was presented her by the Bangor Board 
of Trade in the recognition of her name, and to show the appreciation 
of this, on the evening of the day of her first arrival in port, the man- 
agement tendered to the Board, the Supreme Bench, the City Govern- 
ment and the ladies a most delightful reception with orchestral music 
and a collation, — all the festivities occurring aboard the steamer. The 
occasion helped to usher into service a steamship which has given un- 
bounded pride and satisfaction to the people of Bangor and adjacent 
territory, and which has done much to give the city even better service 
than was enjoyed before. 

Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Company. 

Bangor's path by water to the sea is one that long lingers in the 
memory of those who happily are able to follow it. Rolling hills, with 
broad meadows which slope in their green loveliness close down to the 
blue Penobscot, give place here and their to mountains of rugged 
grandeur; to rocky, precipitious shores, broken now and then by 
stretches of shining beaches which look white and clean as the sun's 
beams are thrown back into his own face. The river twists and turns, 
each new vision as it comes to view seeming more and more beautiful, 
'till we pass Fort Point and before us lies the broad bosom of Penobscot 
bay. 

No one wonders at the great growth of Penobscot bay resorts when 
they have once seen the loveliness of that famous branch of Old Ocean, 
and no one wonders that a line of steamers which thread their way 
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Harbor Steamboat Company which connects Maine's justly celebrated 
coast resort with the Queen City of the East, certainly has much natu- 
ral advantage to its credit ; but with these are joined splendid facilities 
for handling its large frieght and passenger business, not alone from 
Bangor to Bar Harbor, but to countless other beautiful resorts and 
flourishing towns all along its route. 

The advantage such a line is to the city can readily be seen. Bangor 
merchants can ship goods of any description to all down river points 



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STEAMER CIMBRIA. 

and be sure of their safe and prompt arrival. Hampden, Winterport, 
Bucksport, Castine and so on down the line,. clear through the bay and 
points on Mt. Desert are put in direct connection with the fine markets 
of the city, and many people who leave the city for their seashore 
homes are not obliged, as might be the case, to withdraw for a time all 
their trade with home merchants, but are enabled to continue patronage 
with them to a large extent. 

All this helps the city — helps her to no inconsiderable extent. The 
line making connection with others, which lead to towns and resorts 



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out of its course, extends its field of usefulness and so the city's trade 
expands. It is of the utmost importance that not alone the regular res- 
idents, but the great army of summer people among the islands and 
along the shores of Penobscot bay should have safe and sure means of 
transportation, and in the Bangor & Bar Harbor line they get it. The 
company's steamer, Cimbria, making three trips a week is an excel- 
lent one, having recently been remodelled and fitted up in fine style, 
and everything that will add to passenger's comfort is carefully given 
attention. The Sedgwick, of the company's fleet, is another very good 
steamer and her popularity gives her big excursion business all through 
the summer, trips being made daily to Castine, Islesboro and bay resorts. 




STEAMER SEDGWICK. 

Leaving the river, the steamer skirts the eastern side of the bay, 
touching at the many shore points, making landings on Islesboro, the 
lovely island where so many Bangor people make their summer home, 
and on through picturesque Eggemoggin Reach. By hundreds of beau- 
tiful summer homes it passes, which add so much to the attractiveness 
of the landscape, 'till leaving the bay it is soon skirting the southern 
coast of Mt. Desert, touching here and there and Anally reaching Bar 
Harbor. It is a trip which one will have to go far to duplicate with 
scenery which even approaches it in beauty. 



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Bangor has reason to be proud of her financial institutions and they 
have been a tower of strength in the upbuilding of the city and in pro- 
moting the advancement of the trade, commerce and manufacturing 
interests of Bangor and environs. 

First National Bank. 

The First National Bank of Bangor is first in something more 
than name. A glance over its history shows that it was the first 
bank in Maine to organize under the national banking act evolved 
out of the stress of the government's financial needs in the dark 
days of the civil war. The keen business insight of Geo. Stetson, 
then president of the old State Maiket Bank, discerned the advan- 
tages of the new banking system, while his patriotism prompted 
him to come to the government's financial aid so far as lay in his 
power. Accordingly, Mr. Stetson urged upon the directors of the 
Market bank the advisability of surrendering the state charter and 
entering upon the new system. This was done September 15, 1863, 
when the old Market bank ceased to be and the First National bank 
became an accomplished fact. The new bank was number 112 in 
the comptroller's list of national banks. 

The stockholders and officers in the First National were the same 
as in the Market bank. Geo. Stetson was elected president and 
John Wyman, an uncle of the present cashier, was the first cashier. 
The directors were men of prominence and high business standing, 
comprising George Stetson, Franklin Muzzy, John A. Peters, Isaiah 
Stetson, Francis M. Sabine, Elijah L. Hamlin and Jonathan Eddy. 
The Market bank had been established July 1, 1854 with a capital 
stock of $75,000. Samuel F. Hersey was its first president and James 
H. Butler its first cashier. In 1857 John Wyman was elected its 
cashier, and Geo. Stetson became its president in the year of its 
transformation to the national system. 

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Stetson acted in that capacity for 27 years until his death in June, 
1891. He was succeeded by his son, Edward Stetson, and present 
president, who was elected a director of the bank in January, 1881, 
became its vice president in 1887, and became president June 25, 
1891. 

The First National Bank has had but two cashiers since John 
Wyman, its first cashier who resigned shortly after its organization. 
Elias Merrill who served from 1864 till his death in 1877, and E. G. 
Wyman, the present cashier who succeeded Mr. Merrill, January 8, 
1878. Mr. Wymarfs connection with the bank extends over the 
longest period of any of its officers, except Hon. John A. Peters, 
an original director. He came into the bank as clerk and book- 
keeper in 1864 and has been in continuous service ever since. But 
as early as 1857, Mr. Wyman while yet a school boy, had helped 
his uncle, John Wyman, in the duties of the old state bank, which 
was the direct progenitor of the present bank. Mr. Wyman has 
seen the clerical force of the bank tripled since his advent to it in 
1861, when he was not only clerk but had to perform many duties 
of the cashier as well, in that officer's absence or when there was a 
press of business. 

The present officers of the bank are: President, Edward Stetson; 
Cashier, E. G. Wyman; Directors, Edward Stetson, John A. Peters, 
Chas. P. Stetson, Henry McLaughlin, I. K. Stetson, Hiram H. Fogg, 
Benjamin R. Thatcher, Charles A. Gibson, Charles H. Wood. This 
list of men includes recognized leaders in Bangor's business affairs. 

The capital stock of the First National Bank is to-day $300,000. 
The original capital stock was $125,000. This was increased in 
1873 to $300,000. This capital was again increased to $500,000 by a 
subscription of $100,000 of the stockholders and $100,000 stock 
dividend from the surplus. In 1S84 the capital stock was reduced 
to $300,000, and the stockholders were paid $200,000, this transac- 
tion involving a distribution of $100,000 of surplus which had been 
appropriated in the increase to a capital . stock to $500,000 a few 
years previous. The First National Bank handles an aggregate 
annual banking business of $12,000,000 to $15,000,000. Since the 
bank came to occupy its new quarters in 1893, the number of deposit 
boxes has been increased by 137, — only one of the many indications 
of increasing business. 

By common consent the First National Bank is credited with 
having the handsomest home in Bangor, and one of the handsomest 
in the state. It occupies the corner room on the ground floor in 

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the Nichols block, at the corner of Exchange and York streets,, 
an illustration of which is herewith presented. This room is 24 
feet wide by 63 deep, and has been fitted in a manner to afford the 
greatest convenience to the hank as well as its customers. The 
floor space has been divided into a Banking Room proper, 24x35ft. r 
a Directors' Room, 17x14ft., a private retiring room for depositors 
and box renters, a coat room, wash room and toilet room. All the 
rooms have been fitted in a substantial and elegant manner. They 
are all wainscotted five feet high with solid mahogany, finished in 
natural color. In fact all the wood work is of solid mahogany. 
The side windows are oval, 9ft. high and 9ft. wide, while the front 
windows are 11x17ft. all of plate glass. The Banking room is 
divided by a solid mahogany counter of beautiful design and handsomely 
carved, which is surmounted by an artistic grille work of antique 
bronze. The space outside of the counter is laid with mosaic tile,, 
while inside the floor is of hard wood. 

The vault is of the most substantial make, being of the Damon 
pattern, and all that mechanical skill and the strength of which 
iron and steel is capable has been availed of to make this " strong 
box" proof against burglars and fire alike. Everything about the 
vault is of most approved design and construction. No device known 
to the safe-maker's art has been neglected in securing the safety 
of the bank's valuables, and the vault's exterior is as handsome as 
the structure is strong. The interior of the vault has two compart 
ments, — one for the bank's deposit, and the other contains 243 safe 
deposit boxes for renters. 

With a long history of financial success and usefulness behind it r 
the First National Bank of Bangor today looks forward to years of 
continued success and business usefulness. Strong in its men and 
financial resources, with its good name widely established, and 
securely located in new and handsome quarters, the First National 
Bank has more to hope for in a business way than at any time in 
its past history. 

Kenduskeag National Bank. 
The years from 1830 to 1840 were prosperous years in the historv 
of Bangor. During this decade the town more than trebled its 
population, industry flourished and Bangor became a city, whose 
growth and promise was known and noted throughout the land. 
As an evidence, as well as a result of this prosperity, four state 
banks began their existence in Bangor in this era of its rapid devel- 
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1832, its co-temporaries being the Mercantile, organized in 1833, the 
Bank of Bangor in 1834, and the Eastern in 1835. These facts give 
the Kenduskeag bank clean title to the oldest name of any bank in 
Bangor to-day. The first president was John Wilkins, and the 
directors included G. W. Pickering, Abner Taylor and John Godfrey. 
Theodore S. Dodd was the first cashier of the bank, and served as 
such 46 years, one of the longest terms as cashier on record in 
Maine. G. AY. Pickering succeeded John Wilkins as president of 
the Kenduskeag state bank. He was a man of strong character, 
great enterprise and undaunted courage, and left a large impress on 
the city for which he did so much. To him was largely due the 
early building of the Kennebec & Penobscot R. R., connecting 
Bangor and Waterville, and his name is perpetuated in the city by 
Pickering Block and Pickering Square, in both of which he had 
large interests. In 1864 Mr. Pickering decided that the time had 
come for the Kenduskeag to become a national bank. Accordingly 
he bought on his own account the assets of the state bank, and the 
Kenduskeag National Bank was organized as a new institution. Mr. 
Pickering was chosen president of the bank and Theodore S. Dodd 
was made cashier. The directors were : G. W. Pickering, Charles 
Hayward, Thos. J. Stewart, Timothy Crosby and Isaac S. Whitman* 
G. W. Pickering was president of the bank till 1S77 when he was 
s ucceeded by Hon. William B. Hayford, who held the office until 
his death in 1887. Hon. Jos. S. WTieelright was then for a time 
president and later Frederick W. Hill. James Adams, the present 
president, was elected in 1897. He is vice president of the Eastern 
Trust and Banking Company and a trustee of the Bangor Savings 
Bank, and is prominently identified with the business interests of 
this vicinity. George F. Bryant, the cashier, has held this position 
since July, 1896, and has been connected with the bank a term of 
twenty-one years. The present directors are: James Adams, John 
B. Foster, Hiram H. Fogg. Frederick W. Hill and Augustus B. 
Farnham. The home of the Kenduskeag National Bank on Broad 
street is one of the most convenient and commodious banking quarters 
in Eastern Maine. 

Second National Bank. 
The Second National Bank, like most other national banks, whose 
period cover a third of a century, was the immediate successor of 
a state bank— the Bank of the State of Maine — organized in Ban- 
gor in 1851. This bank's quarters were in Granite block at the 
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president of it and was succeeded by G. K. Jewett. William S. 
Dennett was the cashier during its entire existence, and Samuel F. 
Hersey was one of its trustees. After the enactment of the Nation- 
al banking law, the officers of the Bank of the State of Maine con- 
cluded to surrender their state charter and establish a National bank. 
Accordingly, early in 1864, a charter for the Second National Bank 
of Bangor was secured. The first officers of the bank were; Presi- 
dent, G. K. Jewett; Cashier, W. S. Dennett; Directors, G. K. Jewett, 
Daniel B. Hinckley, John Patten, Joseph S. Wheelright, and 
Eldridge G. Dunn of Ashland. The capital stock was $150,000. 
Mr. Jewett remained president of the Bank until 1875, when he 
resigned and was succeeded by Nathan C. Ayer, Esq., who still is 
at the head of this institution. The board of directors comprises N. 
C. Ayer, F. A. Wilson, Chas. II. Wood, F. W. Ayer, A. H. Thaxter, 
Frank Hinckley and W. S. Dennett. Mr. Aj^er and Mr. Dennett 
can claim seniority in their respective offices over all other bank 
officers in Bangor. Mr. Dennett was a cashier in the old State Bank 
of Bangor, in which Samuel Veazie was president as long ago as 
1844. George A. Crosby, the present cashier, entered the Bank as 
clerk in 1880. The bank's surplus and undivided profits is about 
twice its capital stock, placing it in this respect at the head of all 
the national banks of Maine and on the "honor roll" of banks. 
Merchants National Bank. 
The Merchants National Bank is the outgrowth of the Merchants 
Bank of Bangor which was organized July 18, 1850, with thirty- 
seven stockholders comprising many of Bangor's leading business 
men. W. A. Blake was President; Moody T. Stickney, Cashier; 
and Messrs. W. A. Blake, Wiggins Hill, Asa Smith, F. A. Butman, 
Francis Hill and J. H. Bowler, Directors. The State charter was 
surrendered and the Merchants National Bank organized March 30, 
1865, with twenty-five stockholders, Samuel H. Blake being Presi- 
dent, Moody T. Stickney Cashier, and Messrs. Samuel H. Blake, 
Wiggins Hill, Charles Stetson, James H. Bowler and Nathan C. 
Ayer, Directors. In 1880 J. R. Holt was elected Cashier in place 
of Moody T. Stickney, deceased, and upon the death two years" 
later of Mr. Holt, A. P. Baker was in 1882 chosen Cashier and 
still holds that position. In 1887 upon the decease of Hon. S. H. 
Blake the presidency was filled by the election of Hon. Edward H. 
Blake, a son of the first president of the original Merchants Bank, 
and he is still at the head of this widely known financial institution. 
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Clark and F. W. Ayer of Bangor, and F. W. Hutchinson of West 
Auburn. The Merchants National Bank is one of the few banks in 
Maine the surplus and undivided profits of which exceeds its capital 
stock. 

Veazie National Bank. 

In various ways has the name of Gen. Samuel Veazie been per- 
petuated in the city, but in no way more fittingly than in the name- 
ing for him of this financial institution. Gen. Veazie was one of 
Bangor's most prominent, public spirited and energetic citizens and 
it was mainly due to his influence and management that what is 
now the Veazie National Bank came into being. This banking 
house came into existence in 1834, being incorporated as the Bank 
of Bangor. Gen. Veazie was one of the incorporators, the principal 
stockholder and manager, and he continued his position after the 
institution became known as the Veazie Bank. When the bank was 
incorporated under the National banking act in 1873, Gen. Veazie 
became president. 

The Veazie National Bank has the confidence of not only the 
public in general but the most thorough and able business men of 
the community. It has an enviable reputation for its excellent 
business system, and well it may, for some of the most experienced 
business men of Bangor have the management of its affairs. Sixty- 
five years of a continuous career of usefulness is a record in which 
this financial house can justly take pride. It has been and con- 
tinues to be a most useful factor in the city's business life. Charles 
V. Lord is now president of the Veazie National Bank and with 
him are associated in the direction of its affairs, L. J. Morse, Frank- 
lin A. Wilson, George Varney and Frank N. Lord. A. B. Taylor 
is cashier. 

Bangor Savings Bank. 
The Bangor Savings Bank was incorporated nearly a half century 
ago and the first deposit was made May 5th, 1852, by Dr. Edmund 
Abbott of Frankfort, Me. Of the twenty four original officers and 
trustees, four survive, viz, Albert W. Paine, John B. Foster, Arad 
Thompson and George R. Smith. The first President was Elijah L. 
Hamlin. The present officers are President Hon. Samuel F. Humph- 
rey; Treasurer, John L. Crosby; Assistant Treasurer, Everett F. 
Rich; Trustees, Samuel F. Humphrey, Charles V. Lord, James 
Adams, Moses Giddings and Frederick H. Appleton. During the 
nearly half century the Bangor Savings Bank has been in existence, 
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amount to $3,631,354.83; reserve fund, $165,636.88; undivided profits 
$175,752.58, making total liabilities of $3,975,744.29. The estimated 
market value of resources above liability for deposits, earned divi- 
dend and state tax is $555,686.70. John L. Crosby, Esq., the 
Treasurer, was for many years prior to assuming the responsible 
duties of this office, Treasurer of the City of Bangor. 

Penobscot Savings Bank. 
The Penobscot Savings Bank was organized February 3, 1869, 
Major Amos M. Roberts being its first president. Its officers are : 
Hon. Franklin A. Wilson, President; George H. Hopkins, Treasurer; 
and Messrs. Franklin A. Wilson, Charles Hamlin, Nathan C. Ayer, 
Philo A. Strickland and Thomas U. Coe, Trustees. Its deposits 
amount to $2,191,430.85. The estimated market value of resources 
above liability for deposits, earned dividend and state tax, is $218,- 
390.36. In January 1894, the Penobscot Savings Bank moved to its 
present handsome and commodious quarters in the Columbia build- 
ing, at the corner of Hammond and Columbia streets. George H. 
Hopkins, the Treasurer, has held that position since January, 1893, 
and the Assistant Treasurer is Albion J. Whitmore. 

Eastern Trust and Banking Co. 

Among Bangor's banking institutions the Eastern Trust and Bank- 
ing Company is the youngest of the financial family. But its 
remarkable success, enterprise and up-to-date methods of doing busi- 
ness certainly places it among the leading banks of the state, and 
in the consideration of Bangor's financial institutions and methods 
of financiering, the Eastern Trust and Banking Company deserves 
notable mention. 

The Eastern Trust and Banking Company was organized April 9, 
1887. An act of the Maine legislature of that year named the 
following gentlemen as a corporate body: Weston F. Milliken, 
Thomas J. Stewart, Fred W. Hill, John Cassidy, David Bugbee, 
Eugene M. Hersey, John H. Dole, Sprague Adams, James Adams, 
Josiah C. Towle, William B. Dole, J. Albert Dole, William B. 
Snow, Julius W T aterman, Charles E. Field, Eugene C. Nichols, 
Frank P. Wood, Jacob Sterns, George H. Grant, Ivory W. Coombs, 
John Ross, John McCann, Cornelius Murphy, David T. Sanders and 
Francis H. Clergue. The purposes of this corporation were enumer- 
ated in the legislative act under seven separate heads, but which 
in short were to transact a general banking and trust company 
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discount commercial paper, to receive deposits subject to check, to 
maintain a time deposit department subject to the laws governing 
savings banks and paying the same rate of interest, and to rent 
deposit boxes, etc. All kinds of banking is included with a trust 
business. 

As will be seen by accompanying views, the home of the Eastern 
Trust and Banking Company is one of the finest in the city. The 
banking office proper occupies a handsome room 60x20 feet and 16 
feet high. The office furniture and bank desk are of quartered oak, 
while the safe is of the strongest make and latest pattern, being 
one of Herring Hall & Marvin Company's. The largest single plate 
glass in the city makes the bank's handsome window. On the 
floor below the main banking room are the handsome directors' 
room, lavatories and storage vault. All in all, there is no pleas- 
anter bank home in Bangor, or one better suited for business and 
the convenience of its patrons. The company makes a specialty of 
real estate mortgages, making the promissory notes of its creditors 
in form of bonds, guaranteeing itself the payment of the interest 
and principal. Any purchaser of such securities is doubly secured — 
by the note of the borrower and by the guarantee of the company. 
It is better than the ordinary debenture bond, both for the com- 
pany and the investor. The company holds in trust a large amount 
of funds, being trustee for numerous corporations. The bank has 
a large and increasing amount of time deposits, subject to the same 
rules and regulations as savings banks, and pays to its time deposi- 
tors 3h per cent, interest payable semi-annually, the same as do the 
savings banks of Bangor. The company has about 200 safe deposit 
boxes in its vaults, and the number of renters is constantly in- 
creasing. The surplus of the company is constantly increasing, and 
so is its business, as each such annual statement shows. 

The bank of the Eastern Trust and Banking company in Bangor 
is the center and head of the company's business, but not its 
entirety. It has two important branches, one at Oldtown, Me., and 
one at Machias, Me., both prosperous and flourishing as may be 
judged from accompanying cuts. Both are important factors in the 
business of the towns in which they are located. The branch at 
Oldtown was established in 1887, and occupies quarters in Odd 
Fellows' block. The manager is A. H. Brown, one of Oldtown's 
most substantial men. A clerk is employed and the branch has a 
safe and vault, doing the entire local banking business of the town. 

At Machias the branch bank is located in a building of its own, 



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on Center street and was established in 1888. The manager is J. A. 
Coffin, a successful lumberman of Columbia Falls. A regular bank- 
ing establishment is maintained there, and a constantly increasing 
business is a result gratifying to the company. All loans at both 
Oldtown and Machias are subject to the inspection and authorization 
of the home bank and all business transacted in the branch houses 
is subject to the approval of the home office. 

The present officers of the Eastern Trust and Banking Company 
are : President, John Cassidy ; Vice President, James Adams ; Secre. 
tary, George B. Canney ; Treasurer, Charles D. Crosby; Executive 
Board of Trustees, John Cassidy, James Adams, Frederick W. Hill, 
Charles A. Bailey and Charles C. Emerson. To the president of 
the company, John Cassidy, a large measure of the bank's success 
is attributed by his business confreres. James Adams, Vice Presi- 
of the company, is president of the Kenduskeag National Bank. 
George B. Canney, secretary of the company, has been with the 
company practically since its organization occupying the important 
position he now holds. Previous to entering the banking business, 
he was for fifteen years in the Bangor postoffice. Charles D. 
Crosby, Treasurer of the company, is a son of John L. Crosby of 
the Bangor Savings bank, and so a treasurer by birth. He has held 
the important position of the company since its inception. 

The Bangor Loan & Building Association. 

In the possession of the above financial institution Bangor is fortu- 
nate, for its creditable showing places it among the first of the loan 
and building associations of the state. The institution began business 
March 1, 1886 and ever since without meeting with a single loss in 
its business ventures, has declared and paid to its members a divi- 
dend of three per cent every six months. It holds mortgages on 
property, in this immediate vicinity, aggregating $280,000.00 without 
holding any real estate of its own. The association is conducted 
on a safe financial basis and its management and officers are com- 
posed of men whose business judgment and ability have for years 
been unquestioned. 

There are now nearly 1,000 shareholders who hold among them 
about 7,000 shares of the stock. The authorized capital is $1,000,000 
and the reserve fund is now #8,000. The benefit that this associa- 
tion is and has been to the community is known to many besides 
its members; for a large number of houses owned by the young 
men of Bangor have been built and paid for at a cost of little 
more than that of house rent through their membership in the 



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association. Borrowers from the association repay monthly. The 
institution being conducted on the co-operative plan the interest on 
that money reverts to the borrower according to the number of shares 
he holds. No financial system has yet been devised more helpful 
or encouraging to the young man or woman of to-day than the 
loan and building association. 

The quarters of the association are at 22 Broad Street and the 
officers are as follows; James A. Boardman, President; E. F. Dilling- 
ham, Vice President; H. C. Quimby, Secretary; A. F. Stetson, 
Treasurer; M. C. O'Brien, H. G. Thompson, E. F. Dillingham, J. 
F. Snow, and Arthur Chapin, directors. The finance committee is 
composed of H. G. Thompson, J. F. Snow and Arthur Chapin, the 
auditor is F. W. Adams and the attorney, Genl Charles Hamlin. 

Penobscot Loan and Building Association. 
The success attained b3^ the Bangor Loan and Building Associa- 
tion led to the inauguration of a second organization known as the 
Penobscot Loan and Building Association. This association has 
been in operation four years and it will hold its fifth annual meet- 
ing in Januarj^, 1900. Gen'l Chas Hamlin, is President of the 
Penobscot Loan and Building Association; Henry O. Pierce, City 
Treasurer, is Treasurer and Gen'l Henry L. Mitchell is Secretary. 
The Directors are Chas. Hamlin, Harlan P. Sargent, Julius Water- 
man, A. M. Robinson, Thos. White, A. B. Farnham, Henry L. 
Mitchell and Henry O. Pierce. The attorney is Henry L. Mitchell, 
and the auditor, Chas. E. Bliss. Messrs. Wm. F. Curran, Geo. A. 
Davenport and Chas. B. Morse are the finance committee. A large 
amount of money has been loaned upon first mortgages on real 
estate property, and the outcome has been the building of many 
new dwellings. Semi-annual dividends of three per cent each have 
been paid and the business of the association is in a prosperous 
condition with an encouraging outlook for the future. The whole 
number of shareholders at the time of the last annual statement 
was 202. 

Merchants Insurance Company. 
Prominent among the financial institutions are the marine insurance 
companies, there being two such corporations conducting a flourishing 
business in this city. Bangor enjoys the unique distinction of having 
in her midst the only two marine insurance companies in the state 
under the supervision of the Maine Insurance Commissioner. The 
Merchants Insurance Company was first organized as the Merchants 
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formed nearly a third of a century ago. In 1885 the company was re- 
organized and the business has since been carried on under the name of 
the Merchants Insurance Company. Hon. Moses Giddings was the 
president of the Merchants Marine Insurance Company at the time it 
was succeeded by the new company, and Wm. B. Snow was secretary, 
having been elected to that position in 1881, succeeding the late John 
F. Kimball who had been secretary for many years. Hon. Edward B. 
Nealley was chosen president of the Merchants Insurance Company at 
the time of the re-organization in 1885, and has held the position down 
to the present time. Mr. Nealley is prominently identified with Ban- 
gor's business interests and has held numerous offices of trust and 
responsibility. He has been mayor of the city, is first vice president 
of the Bangor Board of Trade and was for many years president of the 
Bangor & Piscataquis Railroad. W. B. Snow was also elected secre- 
tary at the time of the company's re-organization and holds the position 
to the present day. The board of directors comprises Messrs. James G. 
Pendleton, John L. Cutler, Charles V. Lord, Charles P. Stetson, John 
Cassidy, L. J. Morse, Edward Stetson, Wm. B. Snow and E. B. Nealley. 
The Merchants Insurance Company has a capital of $100,000 and takes 
marine risks only. It offers as safe and reliable a policy on as good 
terms as any company. 

Union Insurance Company. 
The Union Insurance Company was chartered in 1862, Geo. Stetson 
being its first president, and J. S. Chad wick, secretary. The com- 
pany was the outgrowth of the Bangor Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company, and originally carried fire as well as marine risks- It 
did a marine business from the start, and after 1873, confined its 
business exclusively to marine risks. Geo. Stetson was succeeded 
later in the presidency by William McGilvery, N. C. Ayer and Arad 
Thompson. A. F. Stetson, who had been Secretary for many years, 
succeeded to the Presidency in 1893, and still holds the position as 
well as that of Treasurer. E. S. Burr is the Secretary, and has 
been since 1893. The company has a capital stock of $100,000, and 
marine risks of between four and live millions of dollars are written 
yearly. The board of directors comprises N. C. Ayer, Arad 
Thompson C. V. Lord, H. M. Prentiss, F. A. Wilson, J. A. Peters, 
L. J. Morse, C. D. Bryant, A. F. Stetson, I. K. Stetson, F. H. 
Appleton, W. S. Higgins, and Chas. Hamlin. 



TELEPHONE SERVICE 



4 

When one considers that it is practically only necessary, so far 
as his own efforts are concerned, to step across the length of his 
office in order to hold a personal and direct conversation with some- 




one in a state far away, he cannot but feel awed at the great 
achievements of science. Science indeed has achieved much, and it 
has fallen upon man to put to practical use the great powers which 
she has put within his grasp. To the splendid service of the New 
England Telephone and Telegraph Company is Bangor indebted, 
for its valuable connection, by long distance telephone, with the 
outside world. 

The growth of the system in this vicinity and throughout Eastern 
Maine has been very rapid. The Bangor exchange was installed in 
1880 with Charles S. Pearl as manager. Mr. Pearl continued in 
office for four years, but at the end of that time, owing to the 



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growth of the business and the limited time which he had to de- 
vote to it, he resigned, being" succeeded by Charles I. Collamore, 
who still holds the position. That was in 1884. At that time there 
were two hundred and fiftj^ subscribers and the longest outside 
connection was to Rockland, a distance of sixty miles. In all there 
were one hundred and eighty-seven miles of wire. 

Compare the system of a camparatively few years ago with the 
system of to-day. There are now two hundred and twelve circuits, 
requiring the service of seven day and one night operatives, instead 
of two, as formerly ; there are three outside line men instead of 
one, as was the case. The Bangor subscribers number five hun- 
dred and seventy-five, while the territory immediately contiguous 




to the city brings the total up to nearly seven hundred. There 
are four hundred and seventy-five miles of wire, giving connection 
with towns in about every direction including Brewer, Carmel, 
Eddington, Exeter, Frankfort, Garland, Hampden, Holden, Kendus- 
keag, Newport, Orono, Orrington, Searsport, Stockton, Veazie, 
and Winterport, besides many more too numerous to mention. One 
can also call up numerous down-river places, including Llockland 
and Camden. 

Piscataquis county is covered by wires to Abbot, Brownville, 
Dover, Guilford, Milo, Monson, Sangerville, Sebec, and Willimantic, 
which lines are those that pass up the state via. Kenduskeag. 



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Dover is also reached, however, by the line through Carmel and 
Newport. Old Town has an exchange of her own, with which 
Bangor connects, giving opportunity to talk with Costigan, Lincoln, 
Milford, and Montague. Within the past year wires were stretched 
out eastward from Ellsworth across Washington county to East- 
port and Calais and intermediate points. Five years ago lines were 
run to the west until connection was made with Boston, thus giving 
the city easy connection with the outside world. This is written in 
the broadest sense for the New England Company's line connects 
with that of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
which extends south as far as Memphis and west to St. Louis, 
Kansas City and to Minneapolis. 

The mail is quick; the telegraph quicker, but the telephone is in- 
stantaneous in its operation. The time and money which is saved 
to a man in business negotiations, if the telephone is used, is its 
most telling feature. Though one cannot see the individual with 
whom he converses, he can hear his voice plainly, and question and 
answer can be given as readily as though in the same room. The 
service of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company is 
greatly improved by extensive improvements to the system. For- 
merly grounded lines and the old Blake transmitters were used, 
but now all are metallic circuits and long distance transmitters. 
These changes were made especially necessary by the great increase 
in number of electric railroad, light and other wires carrying heavy 
currents. The system, now in its perfected state, will continue to 
grow in the appreciation of the busy business man and all classes 
of society. 



TELEGRAPH. 

The Western Union and Postal telegraph companies have offices here 
and the number of messages transmitted daily over the wires of these 
great companies is very large. In addition to the above, the Northern 
Telegraph Company reaches points in Piscataquis and Aroostook along 
the lines of the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, while the wires of the 
Bucksport and Castine Telegraph Company extend southward from the 
city to Bucksport and Castine. The Western Union has made Bangor 
a repeating station between New York and North Sydney, Cape Breton, 
from whence the cable lines reach across the Atlantic. The Western 
Union has established at the Bangor office an Edison quadruplex 
repeater, enabling four messages to be transmitted on one wire at the 
same time. 



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4 

The number of vessels registered and enrolled and hailing from 
the port of Bangor is 85, comprising 75 sailing vessels and ten 
steamers, with a total gross tonnage of 16,773 tons. 

The total receipts of the custom house for the fiscal year ending 
June 30th, 1899, were $130,412.45. The total imports for the District 
of Bangor for the fiscal year of 1899 have been $791,180, against 
$768,224 in 1898 and $1,094,912 in 1897. The exports for the same 
period have been respectively $3,485,237 for 1899, $1,911,525 for 
1898 and $1,303,911 for 1897. 

Bangor's foreign commerce has 4 been expanding in recent years, 
the exports by vessel during the calendar year of 1898 having been 
$353,213.87 and $433,581.34 in 1897, against $261,396 in 1896 and 
$186,245 in 1895. A notable feature of the shipments of 1898 were 
the sending of 20,000,000 feet of deals to Great Britain, a record un- 
paralleled in the history of the port. 

Bangor has many extensive mercantile wholesale establishments, 
comprising groceries, flour and grain, dry and fancy goods, boots and 
shoes, hats and caps, hardware, crockery and glassware, drugs, cloth- 
ing, millinery, cigars, etc., which carry large and varied stocks and 
transact a jobbing business of large proportions. Bapidly expanding 
is the city's jobbing trade and with the increased transportation facili- 
ties phenomenal advancement has been made in recent years. Bangor, 
because of her central location, is the natural distributing point for a 
territory of vast area, and not only do the wholesale merchants here 
cover all the northern and eastern counties but reach out into the cen- 
tral and western sections of Maine as well and likewise extend to some 
extent to the Maritime Provinces. Of the amount and value of mer- 
chandise annually sold by Bangor merchants there is no record, the 
statistics of receipts and shipments by rail and other land transporta- 
tion lines being not available, but the figures aggregate many millions. 

The port of Bangor was open to navigation last year 263 days, and 
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1535, of which 1140 were schooners, 356 steamers, 23 barges, 9 barques, 
2 brigs, 2 ships, 2 sloops and 1 barkentine. There were 23 foreign ar- 
rivals and 34 foreign clearances. There was a falling off in the arrivals 
of small vessels but an increase of 6,009 tons net over 1897, the result 
of a larger class of vessels. The increase of coal over 1897 was 13,803 
tons. The total tonnage of shipping for the season was 530,868 tons. 




PENOBSCOT CENTRAL RAILROAD. 

The following will show the principal imports for 1898 : Coal, 175,- 
261 tons; granite, 880 tons; sulphur, 1,660 tons; pig iron, 770 tons; 
phosphate, 3,441 tons ; salt, 1,103 tons ; shorts and feed, 361 tons ; sand, 
545 tons ; paint material, 273 tons ; potter's clay, 150 tons ; plaster rock, 
385 tons ; bar iron, 149 tons ; gas pipe, 100 tons ; soda ash, 401 tons ; 



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R. R. iron, 2,826 tons ; ground wood pulp, 609 tons ; tarred paper, 62 
tons ; fire brick, 190 tons ; paving stones, 109,050 tons ; kerosene oil, 
21,223 bbls.; vinegar, 559 bbls. ; flour, 875 bbls. ; carboys, 135; hard 
pine, 551,000 feet; cement casks, 15,711; lime casks, 17,645; corn, 149,- 
962 bushels ; oats, 8,000 bushels. 

The figures below give an idea of the amount of business transacted 
at the Bangor custom house duriug the month of October, 1899. The 
total amount of goods imported on which there is no duty was $40,279, 
of which $20,205 was in gold bullion, $6,820 in shingles from Maine 
logs, $1,600 in other lumber, $3,739 in household effects, $2,689 in fish 
sounds and $1,550 in hemlock bark, etc. The total amount of dutiable 
goods was $98,756, of which we will enumerate a few: Number of 
sheep, 3,620; bituminous coal, 669 tons; apples, 86 barrels; hay, 141 
tons; boards, planks, etc., 222,000 feet; laths, 551,000; shingles, 
666,000; clapboards, 240,000; wood pulp, 2,570,000 pounds; pickled 
herring, 78,600 pounds ; pickled mackerel, 132,000 pounds ; lime, 559,- 
400 pounds; live geese, 16,217 pounds; potatoes, 502 bushels; canned 
blueberries, 480,000 pounds. The total of the above amounts to about 
$98,756 with a few others not mentioned. The total amount of duty 
collected for the month was about $25,000. The exports for the month 
were about $151,625 which went principally to the following places: 
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Italy, England, 
Bahamas and New Foundland. Below are enumerated a few of the 
principal exports: Corn, $4,810; mowers and reapers, $2,780; raw 
cotton, $8,416; manufactured cotton, $1,100; hides and skins, $3,860; 
iron and steel, $22,000; boots and shoes, $2,700; musical instruments, 
$900; kerosene and lubricating oils, $12,000; pork, $4,669; starch, 
$5,968 ; fine sugar, $36,125 ; logs and wood, $2,288 ; shooks, $17,465 ; 
furniture, $4,943, etc. The imports come principally from the 
provinces with the exception of one cargo of salt from Turk's Island. 

Bangor's leading exports to foreign lands by vessel in 1899 were 
spool wood, fruit box shooks and deal. The spool wood shipped up 
to November first from the port of Bangor aggregated 5,975,008 ft. 
and went forward in five cargoes, of an aggregate value of $133,440. 
The fruit box shooks aggregated about three millions and went 
forward in thirteen cargoes, of a value of $92,349, up to the same 
date. The deal shipments largely went forward early in the season 
and aggregated in value $87,345. The spool wood was all shipped 
to Scotland, the deal went to England and Scotland, and the fruit 
box shooks to Mediterranean ports. In addition to the above one 
cargo of fruit box shooks went forward from Bucksport last winter. 



MANUFACTURES AND EXPORTS 

Bangor's manufacturing establishments number in the vicinity of 
three hundred, embracing about one hundred different kinds of indus- 
tries and employing several thousand hands. These figures are, how- 
ever, inadequate to correctly portray the city's manufacturing inter- 
ests, as many of the most important establishments, including all the 
large sawmills but one, are outside the city's limits. Therefore, while 
the manufactures of these mills are purely Bangor products, the plants 
themselves and most of the employes belong properly to other towns 
and are scarcely to be included in the above enumeration. Most of 
these plants, however, are included in the territory immediately con- 
tiguous to Bangor and destined to become a part of the city when 
Greater Bangor becomes a reality. 

The Lumber Industry. 

Among Maine's many industries, the lumber trade stands yet pre- 
eminent in magnitude and importance. Bangor is, of course, the cen- 
tre of the lumbering industry of the State, situated as she is upon the 
Penobscot river adown whose tide the great lumber harvest of the 
East and West Branches, the Lakes, the Piscataquis and the Matta- 
wamkeag rivers, floats every year to a market. 

The business is old as the city itself, and in fact was the founda- 
tion stone of this flourishing eastern metropolis. But little lumber 
had been cut on the Penobscot up to the year 1816, when it is stated 
that about a million feet were cut. The business then increased 
slowly till about 1822, when it began to make more rapid advances, 
until in 1831 the cut was estimated at thirty-one millions. It is 
estimated that prior to 1832 there had been cut on Penobscot waters 
some 200,000,000 feet. 

From 1832 to 1899 the records of the Surveyor General's office in Ban- 
gor show 10,263,762,837 feet surveyed, enough to encircle the globe 
seventy-seven times, and an average for the last sixty-six years of 
158,000,000 feet. 

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to 250,000,000 feet, and these figures gradually declined until in 1876 
they had fallen to 115 millions. Since that year the figures have been 
appreciably larger, the highest records being in the years 1882 and 1890, 
the figures being 172,111,094 and 179,106,727 feet respectively. In 1897 
the figures were 169,760,083 feet, but during 1898, because of dull busi- 
uess conditions, there was a decline to 144,324,743 feet. The year 1899 
has, however, been a busy one in lumber circles on the Penobscot and 
up to November 1st, there had been surveyed 157,607,381 feet, while 
this will be further increased by fifteen to twenty millions, before the 
season closes. 

The amount of feet of lumber surveyed each year since 1887 in the 
port of Bangor is herewith appended : 



Pine. Spruce. Hemlock, etc. Total. 

1888 30,942,687 114,348,153 19,473,695 164,764,535 

1889 27,885,394 121,659,086 20,665,903 170,210,383 

1890 28,255,236 129,541,485 21,310,006 179,106,727 

1891 23,114,771 118,205,741 23,664,844 164.9S5.356 

1892 26,896,312 105,044,377 28,453,079 160,393,768 

1893 22 425,974 81,400,612 25,447,931 129,274,517 

1894 25,469,893 116,069,664 18,934,467 161,274,024 

1895 27,189,050 91,483,448 25,513,996 144,191,494 

1896 23,229,799 90,449,002 24,270,204 137,949,005 

1897 25,935,354 118,007,612 25,817,117 169,760,083 

1898 22,501,025 95,167,159 26,656,559 144.324,743 



1,726,134,635 

The mills, as has been stated, are mostly outside the city limits, but 
the offices are all here. Four of the steam mills and one water mill, as 
also several large steam planing mills, are situated on the harbor front. 
One mill run by both water and steam is located on the Kenduskeag 
stream, nearly in the centre of the city, and the other large mills are on 
the several water powers a few miles above the city. The large mills 
are all connected by telephone with the offices here. 

In the vicinity of 1500 men are employed at and about the mills dur- 
ing the half of the year they are in operation, and the several boom 
companies furnish employment to from 300 to 500 more. From 3000 to 
4000 men and some 2000 horses are employed in the woods during the 
winter months, in cutting and hauling to the streams and lakes the logs 
to supply these mills ; and a very large number of men are employed 
on the drives in spring and early summer, in getting the logs to market. 
To feed and cloth this army of workmen, immense quantities of pro- 
visions and supplies are sent in from Bangor by railroad and " tote" 
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The season of 1899 has been a prosperous one with lumber manu- 
facturers on the Penobscot and lumbering- operations are to be 
carried on in the woods this winter on a more extensive scale than 
for many years. 

Pulp and Paper. 

In the varied avenues of business activity, in many and diverse 
branches of industry. Maine has in recent years made remarkable 
progress. Admirably adapted as this region is for a diversity of manu- 
factures, and with a people gifted with ingenuity and endowed with 
enterprise unlimited. Maine already has become famous for her pro- 
ductions, the output of her workshops and factories finding a market 
not only over this broad country, but in other lands as well. While, 
therefore, Maine has for many years been making marked advances as 
an industrial State, it has been until recently a matter of conjecture 
along what lines the greatest development of the future was to come. 
That it is. however, in the direction of pulp and paper manufacturing 
is now plainly apparent. 

In pulp making, Maine is today in the very forefront, while paper 
manufacturing has already become an industry of large magnitude. 
The paper mills, in order that profits be satisfactory, must come to the 
pulp mills eventually, and therefore the time is not remote when Maine, 
true to her motto, should lead in the manufacture of both pulp and 
paper. It is now conceded by all pulp manufacturers that spruce is 
the best wood for pulp, and Northern Maine is full of spruce lying near 
its waterways and easily accessible. The pure, clear, soft water of the 
Maine rivers and streams is far superior to western waters for pulp and 
paper manufacturing, the product is so near to market and the whole 
question of freight is so much in favor of eastern manufacturers that 
New England will always be the center for pulp and paper, and of the 
New England States, Maine has the raw materials in greatest abund- 
ance, the purest water and unlimited power. 

In no branch of industry has greater progress been made in the past 
decade than in pulp and paper manufacturing. While paper manufac- 
turing has been carried on in a small way in Maine for half a century, 
it is only within recent years that it has assumed much magnitude as an 
industry. Of the early mills they were generally small, those in East- 
ern Maine being at Belfast and Hampden. And these pioneer mills 
have been generally abandoned, owing to the great changes in paper 
manufacturing, due to the advent of wood pulp. It was about 1870 
that the Androscoggin Pulp Company erected a pulp mill in Bruns» 
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in operation in the State, and within the last decade, plants for the 
manufacture of ground wood, sulphite pulp and soda fibre have sprung 
up in profusion. Pulp and paper manufacturing in Maine is confined 
largely to the three leading rivers, Androscoggin, Kennebec and Penob- 
scot. The Penobscot, of all the rivers of Maine, is the grandest. Drain- 
ing a territory 8200 square miles in area, and with 467 lakes and ponds 
paying tribute, besides rivers and streams innumerable, the Penobscot 
is a magnificent waterway. 

Ascending the river the Eastern Manufacturing Company have exten- 
sive pulp and paper mills at South Brewer, where is manufactured 
sulphite pulp, and Manilla and writing papers. At Basin Mills, Orono, 
the Orono Pulp & Paper Company have a large plant where is manuf ac- 
tered sulphite pulp and Manilla paper. At Orono the International 
Paper Company have a fine paper mill, originally built by the Webster 
Paper Company, where is manufactured newspaper, and also a ground 
wood pulp mill, originally built by the Webster & Ring Company. At 
West Great Works the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company have an 
extensive plant, where soda fibre is manufactured. At Montague the 
International Paper Company have an extensive ground wood pulp 
mill, originally built by the Piscataquis Falls Pulp and Paper Company. 
Not far distant from Montague, but on the west side of the river, near 
the mouth of the Piscataquis, the Howland Pulp Company have an 
extensive sulphite pulp mill, and at Lincoln the Katahdin Pulp & Paper 
Company have a flourishing sulphite mill. 

Thus the industry has crept further and further back into the woods, 
nearer to its raw material; and now interest centers in the great pulp 
and paper plant being erected by the Great Northern Paper Company 
at Millinockett, away up on the West Branch. The mill is being built, 
in reality, upon Millinockett stream, but West Branch water will run 
its big turbines, being carried across the intervening mile and a half by 
canal. From the hilltop above the mill the water will rush through 
penstocks with a head of one hundred and ten feet and giving at first 
16,000 h. p. The mammoth mill is expected to turn out 250 tons of 
pulp and paper daily at the start, and later this amount will be con- 
siderably augmented. 

The Penobscot's Ice. 
As the season of winter approaches, and the small pools of water 
each morning show a thicker crust of sparkling ice, on every hand 
one hears the question, "Is the river frozen over?'* It is a subject 
of universal interest for it means much to a large class of laborers 
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that the whistle of the Boston boat, as well as those of the number- 
less smaller crafts, will not again sound across the city 'til Spring 
has once more implanted her warm kiss on the land, bringing freedom 
from the bands of ice and snow. 

The freezing over of the Penobscot brings all the shipping at the 
water front to a standstill. For days past the vessels have all been 
hurrying out their cargoes in order to finish and drop down the 
river ere it is too late. But it is not so very long before the surface 
of the river is black with men and horses, '.first planing and scraping 
the ice, so as to remove the inferior surface, and then cutting and 
housing the massive crystal cakes. The whole process of cutting 
and hauling the great crop is exceedingly interesting, though this 
is not the place in which to describe it in detail. It is cold work, 
but many a man is glad to avail himself of this chance to earn his 
honest dollar. Penobscot ice is widely known for its purity and is the 
best to be found anywhere. 

These are the days of trusts and it is the American Ice Company 
of New York which now controls the greater part of the ice crop 
on the Kennebec and a considerable proportion on the Penobscot. 
Though there are still many individual operators, some on quite an 
extensive scale, their numbers are much smaller than in the past 
years, a large number of the houses and privileges on both rivers 
having been purchased by the trust. Prophecy as to the effect 
which this trust ownership will have on the Penobscot ice business 
cannot be very safely indulged in with any degree of certainty at 
present. 

Previous to the winter of 1879-80 the ice business on the Penob- 
scot was confined to a few companies which made limited shipments 
to Southern and West Indies ports, but that season the crop on the 
Hudson (always a potent factor in Maine's ice business) was a com- 
plete failure and the people in this state were quick to see their 
opportunity. Investors, large and small, rushed into the business 
and the icy surface of the whole state was utilized wherever 
possible. But solid companies were formed and the business was 
given a substantial impetus. The crop of that year in this vicinity 
was valued at .$270,000, in some cases selling as high as $5.50 per 
ton, though of course no such price has been known since then. 
The largest harvest of any season was in 1890 when between 400,000 
and 500,000 tons were housed. 

The Penobscot ice is shipped far and wide and a large fleet of 
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and comfort giving Maine commodity to the heated cities farther 
south. 

Diversified Manufacturing. 
While in the years that are past lumber manufacturing has been the 
predominating industry, and while the utilization of our vast timber 
wealth will always be a leading factor in the industrial life of this 
region, yet it is in the realm of diversified manufacturing that we must 
in the future look for the fruition of our brightest hopes. Diversified 
manufactures have in recent years been multiplying, and many and 
varied, at present, are the products of these establishments. Among 
them may be mentioned the following : Boots, shoes, moccasins, etc. ; 
bakeries and confectionery; men's and boys* clothing; ladies' under- 
wear and wrappers ; dyehouses and laundries, wool carding, bricks, 
cigars, barrel and cooperage, boxes and box shooks, brush handles and 
backs ; doors, sash and blinds ; batteaux, canvas canoes, etc. ; carriages, 
sleighs, etc. ; grist mill products, soda and mineral waters/proprietary 
medicines; soaps, candles, tallow, etc.; fertilizer and bone products, 
pottery and stoneware goods, granite and marble working, rooting 
slate, stoves and hollow ware; trunks, harnesses, etc.; printing, book- 
binding, etc. ; steam engines, mill machinery, etc. ; steam boilers and 
plate iron work; tinware and sheet iron work, galvanized cornices and 
conductors, ball bearings, leather and tannery products, plumbing and 
steam heating; wool, hides, furs, etc. ; long and short lumber, mould- 
ings and planing mill products, woodworking and novelty turning, 
electric clocks, extension ladders, paper boxes, lumbermen's driving 
tools, saws and edge tools, spoolwood, last blocks and excelsior, ship- 
timber, knees, spars, etc.; telegraph poles, cedar posts, etc.; butter 
and cream, spring beds, furniture, etc. 



Parker & Peakes. 

It is not often that any community is so much in the industrial 
debt of any one firm, as Bangor is to Parker & Peakes, manufac- 
turers of shoes. Owing to the enterprise and success of this firm, 
the manufacture of shoes has afplace of first rank among the city's 
many and diversified industries. The huge five-story building at 
the corner of Oak and Hancock ' streets is a veritable human bee- 
hive where hundreds of busy hands, scores of whirring wheels and 
tireless machines are daily turning out a product that would pro- 
vide the footwear for a regiment of men. 

What is today the shoe manufactory of Parker & Peakes had its 
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Parker, senior member of the present firm, returned from Massach- 
usetts where he had worked for several years in shoe factories and 
established in Dedham, this State, a shop where he did custom 
work and repairing. He alone constituted the entire force of the 
establishment. Two years later Henry Peakes of the present firm, 
fresh from service in the Union Army, began work for Mr. Parker 
in the Dedham shop. 
In the fall of 1869 the business was transferred to Brewer, 

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PARKER & PEAKES' SHOE FACTORY AND PRESSEY'S BOX FACTORY 

quarters being secured in the Harlow block. Here a partnership 
was formed between Mr. Parker and Mr. Peakes and four or five 
hands were employed. Within four years' time larger quarters became 
necessary and the firm crossed the river and located in the building on 
Park street, this city, now occupied as the Thorns carriage factory. 
After five years' occupancy another removal became necessary and 
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Ayer and now occupied by E. A. Buck & Company. For nine years 
Messrs. Parker & Peakes continued business on Exchange street, 
constantly increasing their output and extending the reach of their 
trade. 

In 1887 the Arm found itself again confronted with the old 
problem, — the need of larger quarters to satisfy the demands of 
increased business. For the fourth time this certain proof of success- 
ful enterprise presented itself to Messrs. Parker & Peakes for solu- 
tion. The number of hands employed had increased to about 200 
and the demand for the firm's product had outgrown the plant's 
capacity. Success in the past inspired the firm with confidence in 
the future, and they resolved to meet the demands of their business 
in a large way and in the only way that seemed to offer a perman- 
ent solution of the problem for room and roof, considering the 
inadequate size of any possible factory building in Bangor. To 
build for themselves a modern and up-to-date factory building was 
their decision. 

The old Mansion house property at the corner of Oak and Hancock 
streets was purchased for a site and this old landmark of the city 
torn down to make room for the busiest and most modern factory 
structure in the city. Plans which embodied the latest ideas in 
building a shoe manufactory were secured as well as the directions 
of fire underwriters. A frame structure 112x40 ft. and five stories 
high, was erected facing on Oak street and extending back along 
Hancock street. A new power plant was installed. Steam heating 
apparatus for the entire building was a feature of the new plant as 
well as the most perfect fire protection possible and the latest labor 
saving machinery. That the firm had not over-discounted the 
future possibilities of its growth was again evidenced within five 
years when (in 1892) more room was needed and a wing 40 ft. 
square and five stories high was added at the front of the building 
on Oak street. This new addition greatly increased the factory's pro- 
duction. 

But five years later increase of business once more made the 
demand for more room imperative and with characteristic enterprise 
and confidence the firm decided on another extensive enlargement. 
Adjoining land was purchased and an addition 88 ft. in length 
and 40 ft. in width, 6 stories high, was built which placed the rear 
of the immense factory on French street, with a total length of 200 
feet and 40 feet in width, except at the front where the 40 foot square 
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built on the same plans as was the original building', so that the 
great factory, as it stands today as will be seen by the accompany- 
ing view, has a uniformity of appearance that would wan nut the 
belief that the structure was built complete and at one time. In 
addition to this extensive enlargement of the factory other impor- 
tant improvements have been inaugurated. The power plant has 
been more than doubled, a fire protection tank ol 50,000 gallons 
capacity has been built, and the equipment has been added to in 
many ways, the latest being an electric light plant of 600 lights. 
A two story building with basement has been erected by the firm 
in the rear on French St. for the purpose of box manufact uring 
being occupied by C. D. Pressey, the paper box manufacturer. In 
1895 the firm of Parker & Peakes had an important accession in the 
person of John L. Parker, a son of Geo. W. Parker, who after a 
thorough business education acquired in Boston and a schooling of 
nine years in his father's facto ry was admitted to the partnership 
of Parker & Peakes. 

To attempt a detailed description of the huge plant of Parker & 
Peakes, with its hundreds of complex machines and the endless 
detail of human and mechanical agencies involved in the making of 
a single shoe, would be an undertaking incompatible with the limits 
of this article or book. Suffice it to say that the operation begins 
at some tannery in a distant state, involves a number of railroad 
systems, is taken up by skilled hands on a half dozen floors of the 
great factory in Bangor, worked over by many machines of almost 
human intelligence, and after sale and shipment, terminates with 
the purchasing merchant in some distant city who has gotten the 
completed shoe just as represented to him. 

Morse & Company. 
"We furnish everything from a hemlock log to a finely finished 
mantel/* This was the legend borne by one of Morse & Company's 
wagons in the trades' procession which passed along the streets of 
Bangor during Merchants* Week several years since, and in all that 
great industrial display the thousands of people who thronged the 
sides of the streets and crowded every vantage place for sightseeing, 
could have read no sign or device that had better claim to exact 
truth. 

And the half dozen vehicles bearing Morse & Company's exhibit 
on that occasion showed that this unique sign, comprehensive as it 
was, designated but a portion of this company's immense and 
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and scantling, mouldings, carved work and mantels, there were floats 
and conveyances bearing tile and fire place fittings and all the 
varied product of this great establishment. And it may be added, 
that if the procession were to be formed again today there would be 
still another float in this company's fine exhibit' bearing the hand- 
somest line of builder's hardware in the whole industrial pantomine. 
That Morse & Company carry on the largest and most extensive 
business in the city of Bangor would be the verdict of the Bangor 
public generally if the question were to be left for its well informed 
decision. 

Like many another Bangor enterprise the business of Morse & 
Company has grown from comparatively humble beginnings. Llew- 
ellyn J. Morse and Hiram P. Oliver of the firm, were the originators 
of the business. They were employed when young men in a lumber 
mill on the same site now occupied by a part of the present estab- 
lishment, and gaining a thorough insight into the business were 
well fitted, when the opportunity came, to purchase the plant and 
start it upon the splendid career for which it was destined. The 
.growth of the business has been rapid. Important innovations have 
been introduced as fast as good business judgment would allow. 
New departments have been added which have become leading 
features of the great plant, until, today, should one who only 
remembered the original establishment, suddenly find himself trans- 
ported to this vigorous scene of activity, nothing could make him 
believe that this was the same place. 

The plant of Morse & Company is on the Kenduskeag, upon which 
it owns valuable water power privileges, but a comparatively short 
distance from the business, heart of the city. Fortunate, indeed, is 
the concern to possess such an admirable location, for the river, or 
stream, hs familiarly spoken of, though small, is navigable up to 
the mills for scows, and up the stream are also rafted the logs 
purchased by the company and destined for the splendidly equipped 
saw mill. The company's facilities for handling logs and lumber 
would delight the mechanic and manufacturer and interest everyone. 
Every machine that is necessary is provided, that all work may be 
done in the best manner and in the quickest time. 

This is all interesting, extremely so, but it is to those depart- 
ments of the plant which turn out what may be termed the more 
fancy work that one turns with delight. It is no idle boast that 
Morse & Company produce some of the finest work in the line of 
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trimmings of any concern in New England, if not, indeed, in the 
country. The company has furnished the material for a great 
number of the costliest jobs in New England in recent years. The 
high grade of the mantels, moulding and other costly finish, (and it 
is equally true of that of less elaborate character) is widely known 
and acknowledged and the same may as truly be said of the splen- 
did product of the sash and blind department. The work, whether 
the costly and elaborate carving or that of less imposing type, is 
all characterized by careful and painstaking construction. 

The recent addition of a model department of fancy and heavy 
builders' hardware, gives the concern the ability to furnish absolutely 
everything for construction, from foundation to roof. No manu- 
facturing corporation in New England has a more superior office. 
Morse & Company's plant is a credit to itself and a valuable acquisition 
to the city of Bangor. 

The officers of Morse & Company are: President, L. J. Morse; 
Treasurer, Frank Hight; General Manager, H. P. Oliver; Clerk, W. 
L. Morse; Directors: L. J. Morse, Frank Hight, H. P. Oliver, W. L. 
Morse and W. S. Higgins. 

The J. F. Parkhurst & Son Company. 

On Main street is situated the interesting and busy trunk factory 
of the J. F. Parkhurst & Son Company. The business was estab- 
lished in 1866, beginning in an unpretentious way, but has gradually 
attained no small magnitude, there being now turned out between 
30,000 and 40,000 trunks annually. In the factory and shipping- 
department there are employed about one hundred men. 

Jonathan F. Parkhurst, the founder of the business, was a native 
of Unity, in this State, and a portion of his younger manhood was 
passed in the West. In 1881, his son, Frederick H. Parkhurst, 
entered the firm and the concern was incorporated in 189*2. J. F. 
Parkhurst is President of the company, and Frederick H. Parkhurst, 
Treasurer and Manager. Manager Parkhurst is now serving his second 
term as one of Bangor's representatives in the Maine Legislature. 

There are fifty styles of trunks made, each having three or four 
sizes. The concern also wholesales bags, saddlery, hardware, 
carriage harnesses, blankets, robes, etc., which branch of the 
business extends over Maine and New Hampshire. Trunks are sent 
all over New England, New York and Pennsylvania, though the 
largest single market is Boston. The factory produces about a car- 
load of trunks a day, and during the past three or four years it 
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H. White & Company, while they have also been sent in enormous 
numbers to Houghton & Dutton of the same city. 

Both as regards the employment of labor and in the magnitude of 
the output, this excellent factory is equal to any two similar industrial 
establishments in New England. The wooden portions of the Park- 
hurst trunk are manufactured and purchased in the vicinity of Bangor, 
while a million pounds of iron are consumed in their construction, 
annually. The total weight of a year's production of trunks is from 

I, 500,000 to 2,000,000 pounds, and the daily product is about a carload. 
Such an industry requires plenty of room, and the concern has it, the 
175x45-foot factory having on its five floors something like an acre of 
space. The success which has been attained by the J. F. Parkhurst & 
Son Company, as it is now styled, speaks well for the men who have 
been at its head. The officers are now : J. F. Parkhurst, President ; 
F. H. Parkhurst, Treasurer and Manager; and for Directors, J. F. 
Parkhurst, F. H. Parkhurst and Thomas O'Leary. 

Union Iron Works. 
By the consolidation of two important industries of this city, the 
Hinckley &Egery Iron Company and the Bangor Foundry & Machine 
Company, early in 1898, there was formed a concern of even greater 
importance to the city's welfare. This corporation is the Union Iron 
Works. 

Both the Hinckley & Egery Iron Company and the Bangor Foundry 
& Machine Company were long and firmly established industrial enter- 
prises, both of them well equipped and doing a good business, but each 
naturally cutting to a more or less extent into the field of the other. 
By the consolidation of interests this competition was eliminated. Of 
course, heavier capital was available, and with the best of each estab- 
lishment joined in one, together with the extensive improvements 
which the plant of the one-time Hinckley & Egery Iron Company 
underwent, gave the new concern a thoroughly modern and up-to-date 
equipment. 

Many extensive improvements and enlargements have been made in 
all departments of this immense plant, making it one of the finest in 
equipment in New England. The most northerly building in the plant 
of the concern is the store, which is entirely devoted to a complete line 
of mill supplies. In this line the company are the largest dealers in 
Eastern Maine, as well as being the leading manufacturers of general 
mill machinery. 

In all departments of the works perfect system is evident, and it is 
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recognizes the fact that system is imperative wherever complete 
unison is desired in the successful operation of a large plant. 

The officers of the Union Iron Works are : President and Treasurer, 
Charles V. Lord; Manager, Charles A. Watters; Directors, Charles V. 
Lord, W. S. Whitman, H. P. Oliver, C. A. Gibson, E. M. Hersey, 
C. S. Lunt and L. C. Tyler. 

Eastern Manufacturing Company. 

The Eastern Manufacturing Company are manufacturers of lumber, 
pulp and paper, with offices on Exchange street, this city, and with an 
extensive plant located in South Brewer. The lumber mill was origin- 
ally operated by Palmer & Johnsoo, but in the eighties was purchased 
by F. W. Ayer and extensively rebuilt by him. The improvements 
included an addition of three band saws, this being the first band saw 
mill in the New England States. 

The mill is thoroughly modern and up-to-date in its equipment, and 
has a daily capacity of 200,000 feet of long lumber, with a total output 
for the season of about 35,000,000 feet. The pulp mill was built about 
1890, and the paper mill in 1895. The mills are models of their kind, 
and the pulp mill has a daily capacity of 60,000 pounds of sulphite pulp 
and the paper mill 50,000 pounds of Manilla and fine writing papers. 
The manufactured lumber is shipped to Boston, New York, Sound ports 
and England, while the undesirable dimension lumber goes to supply 
the pulp mill and is converted into pulp and paper. 

As indicative of the importance of this industry to the community, 
400 hands are employed with average wages of over $2.00 per day, and 
the total business for the year aggregates $1,000,000. About 10,000 
tons of coal are consumed annually by the pulp and paper mills. The 
company controls about one mile of shore front, extending from 
Dyer's Cove to the mills of D. Sargent's Sons, thereby affording super- 
ior accommodations for the storing of logs. 

F. W. Ayer is President of the Eastern Manufacturing Company, 
Chas. F. Wo>'dard is Treasurer and F. W. Ayer, C. V. Lord and C. B. 
Clark, Directors. 

Sterns Lumber Company. 
The name of Sterns has been connected with the lumber business 
of the Penobscot longer than, any other, the family having been 
engaged in the business for the greatest number of consecutive 
years. Y r ears ago, early in the century, Samuel Sterns, grandfather 
of Samuel and Ezra L. of the present firm, came to this section 
from Massachusetts, locating in what was then Brewer Village, now 
South Brewer. Later he built a sawmill which he conducted alone 



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until 1840 when his son Charles G., who had worked in the mill 
since 1836, went into partnership with him. 

After the death of his father, which occured in 1841, Charles G. 
continued the business alone for a number of years, when, in 1848, 
Deacon Daniel Sargent was admitted to partnership, under the name 
of C. G. Sterns & Co. The firm afterwards became Sargent & 
Sterns, continuing until 1864, when it dissolved, Mr. Sargent taking 
the Brewer village mill and Mr. Sterns, the Roberts steam saw mill 
at East Hampden, which the firm purchased of A. M. Roberts and 
Hinckley & Egery in 1863. It was about this time that the Bangor 
office was opened and in 1865 the firm became C. G. Sterns & Co., 
consisting of Charles G., his two sons, Samuel and Ezra. L. Sterns, 
and Ebenezt-r Wheelden. Mr. Wheelden continued a member of the 
firm till 1884 when he retired. Chas. G. Sterns died in 1889 and 
about five years ago the firm adopted the title which it now holds, 
the Sterns Lumber Company. 

The Sterns mills at East Hampden are some three miles below 
Bangor. There was a steam mill built there as early as 1836, but 
the transformation made in the premises has been very great indeed. 
Today the plant of the Sterns Lumber Company is one of the best 
on the river. The mills are modern in every way, running two 
band saws and turning out 150,000 feet daily, or an annual output 
of 20,000,000 feet. The firm deals in dimension lumber of all kinds 
and does a large business as is well indicated by the figures given 
and by a visit to this busy plant. 

D. Sargent's Sons. 

Maine's two great staples, lumber and ice, are well handled on a 
large scale by D. Sargent's Sons of South Brewer. The lumber indus- 
try at this place originated more than a century ago, through the enter, 
prise of Col. John Brewer, for whom the town was named. The busi- 
ness was built up by Daniel Sargent and now it is in the hands of his 
two sons, Harlan P. and D. N. Sargent, who succeeded to the manage- 
ment and proprietorship of the business on the death of their father. 

That D. Sargent's Sons have built up and are maintaining a fine busi- 
ness is shown by their excellent output. Business is rushing with 
them. They are employing sixty men and turning out 75,000 feet of 
lumber a day. Their mills at South Brewer are fine ones, 60x80 feet in 
size, having the latest improved mill equipments, including band saw 
and gang edger. Besides long and short lumber they also manufacture 
laths, pickets, staves, clapboards and shingles. The clapboard and 
shingle mill are run by water, and the board mill by steam. 



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D. Sargent's Sons do a very large business in ice, and in this line are 
the pioneers on the Penobscot, the first cargo shipped from this port 
having been sent to New York by the Sargents in 1876. The concern 
puts up about 30,000 tons of the crystal every year. 

Harlan P. Sargent of the firm was Brewer's first Ma} r or, while 
D. Allston Sargent, also of the firm, is the present Mayor of that city, 
and also President of the Brewer Board of Trade. 

Wood & Bishop Company. 
^ k One of the manufacturing corporations, to the activity of which this 
city is indebted in no small degree, is the Wood & Bishop Company, 




maxfield's wool factory. 

makers of ranges, stoves, furnaces, tinware, etc., foundry 329-339 Main 
street, office and salesrooms, 40-4*2 Broad street. 

The business of this company was established over sixty years ago, 
in 1839, when Henry A. Wood came from Providence, E. L, and opened 
a store and shop on Broad street. 

From that small beginning, the business, founded on principles of 
strict integrity, has broadened and developed into its present propor- 
tions, giving employment to from eighty-five to one hundred hands, and 
supplying with its high grade products a wide community, embracing 
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At the outset, the goods made by this company took high rank in the 
market, a position that has always been maintained through thorough- 
ness of construction, perfection of detail and the addition of a great 
many improvements. Today their line includes a great variety of 
ranges, stoves and furnaces adapted to all sorts of requirements. The 
name Clarion as applied to goods of their manufacture has grown justly 
celebrated and is considered throughout the trade a guaranty of value. 
To instance the durability of their constructions, it is sufficient to state 
that many of their Clarion ranges of the first pattern, made in 1874, 
have been in continuous use ever since they were manufactured and are 




to-day highly prized by their owners, who would not exchange them 
for ranges of other manufacture, no matter how modern the style. 

A few styles of their large variety in ranges are the Imperial, Gold 
and Royal Clarions and Our States; in coal parlor stoves, the Royal 
Clarion and The Clarion ; in wood parlor stoves, the Ideal Clarion and 
New Clarion ; and in furnaces, the Etna and Clarion lines for coal, and 
the Monitor, Hot Blast and Climax for wood. 

The company was incorporated in 1894, and the officers now are: 
President and Treasurer, Charles H. Wood; Vice-President, Edward 
Wood; Assistant Treasurer and Clerk, Gorham H. Wood, the same 
three constituting the board of directors. The first two are sons and 



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the last a grandson of the founder of the business, Henry A. Wood. 
Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Company. 

It was sixty-three years ago that Albert and Henry Noyes came to 
Bangor and opened a tin store on Central street near the location of the 
fine store now occupied by the Noyes & Nutter Manufacturing Com- 
pany. There was then no other store of this nature in Bangor, stoves 
being handled by hardware dealers. 

Frank C. Noyes, son of Albert Noyes, was admitted to partnership in 
1865, and in the year when Albert Noyes died, 1876, George H. Nutter 
became a member of the firm. In 1891 the concern was incorporated, 
Frank C. Noyes being President and George H. Nutter, Treasurer. 




NOYES & NUTTER MFG. CO'S FOUNDRY. 

Originally starting as a tin store, the business of the now Noyes & 
Nutter Manufacturing Company has grown until that part of the busi- 
ness is one of many important departments. The company has an 
excellent foundry on Dutton street, which produces a fine output of 
stoves, furnaces, ranges and hollow ware. There are fifty hands 
employed by the concern in all. This company's product in stoves and 
ranges is known as the Kineo line, for burning coal or wood. 

Besides the commodious store, 23, 25 and 29 Central street, the foun- 
dry and its attendant buildings give the firm an excellent plant. At the 
factory is a storehouse, 100x40 feet, three stories high; a moulding 
room, 100x50 feet; a mounting room, 50x75 feet; a cleaning room, 



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25x50 feet, and, in addition to these quite a colony of sheds for storage 
purposes. The whole establishment of the Xoyes & Nutter Manufac- 
turing Company is a fine one and well adapted to the needs of the con- 
cern. A new catalogue profusely illustrated with cuts of their stoves, 
ranges, furnaces, etc., has just been issued. 

Hampden Creamery. 
The Hampdeu Creamery was established in 1886 by J. W. Hopkins, 
and in 1894 the business was removed to Bangor, a commodious plant 




HAMPDEN CREAMERY. 

being erected in this city at the corner of Sixth and Pier streets. The 
•establishment, an excellent likeness of which accompanies this sketch, 
is supplied with a thoroughly modern and up-to-date equipment, and 
is admirably adapted for the purposes required. Although considerable 
-cream is marketed in this city and its environs the largest market is 
Boston and Hampden cream is always in demand. In order to meet 
requirements another creamery has recently been purchased at Liver- 



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more Falls, and will be operated as a branch. F. W. Hopkins, a son 
of the founder of the business, is now actively in charge of the 
Hampden creamery. 

In connection with the creamery there is a mineral spring which has 
recently become famous. The capacity is 1500 gallons per hour and 
the water of the best. There is a seven inch hole and it is 120 feet 
deep. The water is put up in glass bottles of a gallon capacity and a 
large trade has been established for this water in Bangor and vicinity. 

Adam Sekenger. 
The aesthetic nature of the people of not only Bangor, but east- 




ONE OF SEKENGER" S PINK HOUSES; 

ern Maine is ably catered to by Adam Sekenger, the well known 
florist of this city. Mr. Sekenger's busin ss is no new one, having 
been established in 18)2 by his father Adam Sekenger, Sr., and 
having been conducted by him until eight years ago, when he was 
succeeded by his son. 

There are fourteen houses three of them 50 feet long and the rest 
ranging from 75 to 115 feet, which present 26,000 feet of glass to 
the weather. Two houses, each one hundred feet in length, are 
devoted to roses, and in one of them are 28,000 bu-hes. And such 



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roses ! It would, indeed be hard to find more beautiful or more care- 
fully nurtured flowers. It is useless to attempt to portray the 
exquisite beauty of any one flower, for each is as worthy of praise 
as its neighbor. Mr. Sekenger raises vast quantities of pinks, chrys- 
anthemums, violets, lilies, etc., all in their proper season, and each 
variety perfect in quality and variety. 

There are three 100-foot houses devoted entirely to pinks, and still 
another, twenty-five feet shorter. An entire house, 100 feet in length, 
is filled with violets, of which great many are raised, while two 
other 50-foot houses contain palms and smilax, respectively. The palm 
house is a veritable tropical forest, with gigantic as well as small 
palms and other tropical plants in great profusion. The other conserv- 
atories are given up to various flowers as they come along in their turn. 
Four houses have been built during the present year; three of them 
100 feet in length and the other fifty. Great numbers of shrubs, etc., 
are imported at a large expense every year, and are as readily disposed 
of as the rest. 

Bangor Gas Light Company. 

On account of its excellent lighting service at reasonable rates 
and liberal management there is perhaps less fault found with the 
bills sent out by the Bangor Gas Light Co. than those of companies 
operating in the average New England city. Bangor is not boast- 
ful of this but enjoys the distinction. The company now owning a 
perfect and modern plant has been in operation here since 1851. 
Its incorporators included a long list of men who have figured 
prominently in the development of the city's welfare, and its capital 
stock has always been held at $150,000, although the plant alone 
has now cost much more than that amount. The works have been 
several times enlarged and improved, and now contain three gas 
holders with a combined capacity of more than 200,000 cubic feet. 
There are also five new half depth regenerator furnaces with six 
retorts each. The plant also possesses two large and new purifying 
houses besides large coal sheds with a capacity of over three 
thousand tons of coal. At this day the company has laid about 
eighteen miles of gas main in this city and in this regard has fully 
kept pace with the growth of Bangor and in certain sections anti- 
cipated future growth. That the quality of the gas produced is 
equal to the highest standard is a known fact. Gas is used exten- 
sively in this city as the service of the company is of the best. 
The officers are: Dr. T. U. Coe, President; George A. Crosby, Treas- 
urer; Charles M. Griffin, Clerk; and Charles E. Dole, Superintendent. 



PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY, 



J* 

; Among the early electric plants in America, and one of the earliest 
electrical power transmissions, may be mentioned the Public Works 




PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY'S POWER STATION AT VEAZIE. 

Company of Bangor, through its underlying companies The Bangor 
Electric Light and Power Co.; The Penobscot Water and Power Co. ; 
The Bangor Street Railway; and the Brewer Water Co 

During the autumn of 1835 the Bangor Electric Light and Power 
Co. opened its station on Cross street for business and until 1890 



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continued to furnish lights and power from that station. During 
the autumn of 1890 the station now in use at Veazie four and one 
half miles above Bangor on the Penobscot River opened its lines for 
service. The starting of this plant was one of ihe pioneer attempts 
at the electrical transmission of a water power in the United States. 
Owing to the somewhat crude condition of the electrical trans- 
mission science at that time the plant was run with varying success 




SUB-STATION, PARK STREET. 



until 1895, in which year the engineering problems having been 
somewhat bettered, the operation was placed on a newer basis and 
has been successfully carried on to the present time until it stands 
today quite up to modern practice. 

Growing from a poorly developed waterpower operating a oouple 
of saw mills, Veazie has grown in importance until from the 



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waters of the Penobscot at that point, its sphere of influence 
stretches to Old Town nine miles on the North, to Hampden Corner 
twelve miles to the South and promises to reach some six or seven 
miles further South upon the completion of the Bangor, Hampden, 
& Winterport Railway. 

,i From the Power station, a cut of which is herewith presented, 
are operated thirty three miles of electric railway, about ten 
thousand incandescent electric lamps and nearly one hundred horse- 
powers 'in small motors. The water power at present developed 
approaches two thousand horsepowers; and an equivalent amount 




SUB-STATION SWITCHBOARD — FRONT. 

of steam engine and boiler capacity is also installed, rendering the 
operation of the plant quite independent of the presence of water in 
the river. 

The Railway current is furnished direct at a pressure of five 
hundred volts. The lighting and power current is of the alterna- 
ting triphase variety, generated at six thousand volts and trans- 
mitted to the Bangor sub-station practically without loss. At the 
sub-station on Park and Center streets this high pressure is reduced 
by means of nine large transformers to two thousand volts at which 



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pressure it is sent to the distributing switchboard and thence 
through the city mains to the immediate vicinity of the consumer. 
Here it undergoes still another reduction and enters the premises 
of the user at the harmless pressure of one hundred volts. At this 
point by the pressing of a button it is tranformed into light, heat 
or power, either or all from the same wires, and without odor, 
smoke or dirt, to affect deleteriously the finest frescoes or most 
delicate fabrics. 

Many of the small industries of the city are operated electrically, 
and one may walk to business in electrically made shoes, wearing 




SUB-STATION SWITCHBOARD — REAR. 

electrically made clothes, read an electrically printed morning paper, 
by the light of an electric lamp: may ride to lunch in an electric car, 
eat electrically cooked food and electrically frozen ice cream under 
the breeze from an electric fan; go home to bed with an electrical 
"hot pad*" at his feet and consider that he has spent an electrical 
day. As an inducement to manufacturers to locate in Bangor it 
may be mentioned that electric power can be furnished cheaper 
than they can make it by other means. 

The Public Works Company's Railway reaches all quarters of the 



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city, and by means of its free transfer system an excellent view of the 
city may be gained from its cars. 

The company's offices are at the sub-station on Park street, and these 
rank among the handsomest and most convenient business headquarters 
in Bangor. A trip to this sub-station will repay anyone who will visit 
it. Here are the big transformers electrically cooled that handle high 
pressures and deliver the current to the beautiful switchboard of 
polished gray Vermont marble, where, by means of switches, the cur- 
rent is sent equally out upon the distributing feeders to all parts of the 
city. Here also, by moans of many nickled instruments the currents 
are measured as to amount and pressure. The company maintains a 
force of nearly one hundred persons, in all its many and varied braneh- 




PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY'S CAR HOUSE. 

es, and hence ranks high among the employers of labor in the city. 

In addition to the furnishing of electricity in its various forces, the 
Public Works Company has in its station at Veazie two large water 
pumps of 1,000,000 gallons per day capacity, one driven by waterpower 
the other by steam. These furnish pure filtered water for domestic 
purposes to the city of Bangor and the town of Veazie. In Old Town 
the company has a similar pumping plant, which supplies water to Old 
Town, Milford, Great Works and Stillwater. 

The following facts may prove of interest. The Power Station runs 
continuously, twenty-four hours per day, 365 clays in the year. An 
output of over 1000 H. p. every hour is sent out from Veazie station. 
The electric current is transmitted four and one-half miles before being 



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used. The railway department carried 1,250,000 passengers during the 
past year. There are thirty-three miles of track operated over from 
Veazie station. Truly electricity is omnipresent. 

The officers of the Public Works Company are : President, Charles 
F. Woodard; Sec, Treas. and Gen. M'g'r, Jas. H. Cutler; Supt. 'Light 
& Power Dept., Jas. W. Cartwright, Jr.; Supt. Railway Dept., W. H. 
Snow; Supt. Water Dept., Henry C. Sparks; Purchasing Agent, F. D. 
Oliver; Supt. Power Station, H. S. French. 



RIVERSIDE PARK. 

A side line to the business of electric roads has developed within the 
past few years in Maine, which has become a most necessary adjunct. 
This is the suburban resort business which many roads have taken up. 
In Bangor's case it is Riverside Park, conducted by the Bangor, Hamp- 
den & Winterport Electric Railway. The park was opened in 1898. 
Perched high, in a most lovely location and overlooking the beautiful 
Hampden Narrows of the Penobscot, no more desirable place could 
have been found. The park is within the precincts of Hampden, and 
is reached it after a delightful ride of thirty-minutes. 

The park property slopes down to the water's edge and here can be 
had boats with which to pass a portion of the time on the most beauti- 
ful river in New England. The park itself has all of the usual attrac- 
tions of similar resort places, and it is conducted in such an excellent 
manner as to win the approval of the best classes of society. The open 
air, rustic theatre is one of the most prominent features of the resort, 
and has been conducted so well that the park has never seen entertain- 
ments of an objectionable nature. Such resorts, which are within the 
reach of about every class of persons, require the most careful sort of 
management in order to keep their character at the high point of 
excellence that the better class of citizens demand. Riverside Park 
has had, and still possesses such management, as is demonstrated 
by the liberal patronage which Bangor people have given the enter- 
prise ever since its inception. 

Bangor is indeed fortunate in the possession of a nearby resort of this 
nature. The change and rest incident to a trip to the park is of inesti- 
mable benefit to that great class of people who, because of various 
reasons, are unable to leave the city for more than a short time. There 
are equally beautiful localities near Bangor, but perhaps none so easily 
reached. The city is materially helped in possession of Riverside Park, 
in that it gives the community still another enjoyable feature and make 
the place just so much more pleasant in which to have one's home. 



BANGOR'S ADVANTAGES AS A 
MANUFACTURING AND TRADE CENTRE 

¥ 

Situated near the geographical centre of the State, and at the head of 
navigation of the largest river, Bangor is a natural trade and business 
centre for a vast section of country, rich in, natural resourc.es and with 
great possibilities before it. 

The outlook for the continued and rapid growth of Eastern and 
Northern Maine was never so promising as at present. The immense 
capabilities and abundant natural resources of the section, including 
the five great counties of Penobscot, Piscataquis, Aroostook, Hancock 
and Washington — covering an area of nearly 18,000 square miles — 
are becoming better and wider known, and their wants and opportuni- 
ties appreciated. It is beginning to be realized, on the one hand by the 
country residents, that in the building of large towns and cities in their 
midst lies the best and surest prospect of creating a profitable market 
for their products and promoting their wealth and prosperity : and on 
the other hand, by capitalists and business men, at home and abroad, 
that sure profits await judicious investments in manufacturing in this 
section. Agriculture and manufacture go side by side, and the success- 
ful pursuit of either is indissolubly connected with the other. As the 
railroads push their way further into the wilderness from year to year, 
new manufacturing enterprises are constantly springing up along their 
lines, and the little hamlets thus planted soon blossom into nourishing 
villages. 

Throughout this section are thousands of acres of the richest farming 
lands in New England, not yet under cultivation ; hundreds of square 
miles of spruce, pine, hemlock and hardwood forests, as yet scarcely 
touched by the lumberman ; innumerable unoccupied water powers and 
mill privileges only awaiting communication with the outer world to 
become of great value for manufacturing purposes; immense belts of 
slate, iron, granite, marble, lime and clays, suitable for every variety 
of uses. In short, as this district becomes more fully explored and 



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opened up to settlement, it is found to be richer in the variety and 
abundance of its natural resources than any territory of equal extent 
in the eastern United States. 

The picturesque scenery and fine climate of this northeastern corner 
of the United States ; its virgin forests, mountains, lakes and streams, 
with their attractions of fish and game ; its long line of rugged seaeoast, 
broken by innumerable bays and inlets; the great number and unsur- 
passed excellence of its summer hotels ; all combine to make it the 
resort, during more than half the year, of thousands of tourists and 
pleasure-seekers from all over New England and the West. The meas- 
ures taken by the State for re-stocking the inland waters with game 
fish, and for the protection and propagation of fish and game, have 
been productive ot the best results, and today there is no section of this 
country where trout, salmon, moose, deer and caribou are more abund- 
ant and more easily obtained than in the regiou embracing these five 
counties named. 

From Old Town Falls to Bangor, twelve miles, the river falls 113 
feet and there are numerous privileges and chances for a line of mills 
along both banks, throughout nearly the whole distance. Within the 
city limits, where the river enters tide water, is a valuable power 
created by the waterworks dam, that is at present only utilized to 
drive the machinery at the pumping station. The fall at this point 
varies from five to twenty feet, according to the stage of the tide, with 
an average of more than ten feet when the river is at its lowest 
summer drought. The shores for some distance below the dam are 
available for mill-sites, with sufficient depth of water to admit being 
reached by vessels of light draught, and the location lies alongside the 
tracks of the Maine Central Railroad. The uniformity in the volume of 
water flowing down the Penobscot is assured by the extent of its tribu- 
tary area, which has a length of 160 miles, and a greatest width of 115 
miles, making an area of 8200 square miles, only 800 of which discharge 
their surplus water into the main river below Bangor. There are also 
several valuable powers and privileges on the Kenduskeag, within the 
city limits, now only partially utilized. 

The advantages that Bangor offers for manufactures of almost every 
kind are unequalled. The important things necessary to make a man- 
ufacturing centre are : The productiveness of the tributary country; 
the cheapness of fuel and power, and the abundance of raw material; 
the stability of the population and the consequent availability of labor ; 
low cost of living ; the number of railroad and shipping facilities ; and 
the contiguity of rich markets. Bangor has all these, and more. Rents 



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and insurance are low. Mechanics and laborers can make pleasant 
homes and procure the necessaries and comforts of life at as small cost, 
at least, as in any place of equal size in the country. Fuel is plenty 
and cheap, the refuse of sawmills furnishing an unlimited supply of 
wood, while coal is had at much lower prices than in most New 
England cities, owing to the fact that vessels carrying lumber and ice 
from the Penobscot to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and other 
coal ports are enabled to take return cargoes at low rates. The trans- 
portation facilities, as elsewhere shown, are first-class. 

The river banks for miles in and about the city furnish the best pos- 
sible sites for mills and manufactories, with unsurpassed deep-water 
wharfage privileges, and with every facility for procuring limitless 
supplies of cheap fuel, either wood or coal. The forests on the line of 
railroads radiating from Bangor can furnish a large supply of poplar, 
spruce and other cheap woods, at a less cost, than can be obtained in 
any other seaboard locality. The wool-growing districts of the State 
are within easy access, and the numerous vessels carrying lumber, hay, 
ice, brick and stone to southern ports, could bring back cotton at low 
rates. In fact, it is hardly possible to find a place possessing superior 
advantages for textile manufactures of all kinds, and likewise for pulp 
and paper manufacturing, while there are innumerable varieties of 
wood-working, iron-working and other industries that might flourish 
here as they could no where else. For almost all the countless multi- 
tudes of smaller industries the location cannot be excelled, owing to 
low rents and insurance, cheap freights, small cost of either water, 
steam or electrical power, and the general desirability of Bangor as a 
place of residence for the best class of mechanics. 

With four great lines of railway centering in Bangor, extending from 
the four corners of the State and traversing its richest territory, her 
merchants and traders have only to show a proper amount of enter- 
prise to secure and hold the trade of a larger and richer section of 
country than is tributary to any other city in New England. With the 
numerous present and prospective branch lines penetrating the im- 
mense timber forests, farming sections and quarrying districts of the 
State, whence may be drawn inexhaustible supplies of raw materials ; 
and with unlimited and unfailing waterpower, and direct and rapid 
communication with all the world's markets, Bangor should and must 
become a manufacturing and commercial city of great importance. 



BANGOR BOARD OF TRADE 



4 

In April, 1872, a meeting of citizens of Bangor and Brewer was 
held to consider the subject of starting certain manufactures and 
evoking a manufacturing spirit in this locality. The meeting was 
presided over by Hon. J. S. Wheelwright, then Mayor of the city, 
with A. L. Simpson as Secretary. Addresses were made by Messrs 
S. H. Blake, Henry E. Prentiss, Marcellus Emery, J. P. Bass and 
others. 

The result of the discussions and deliberations of this meeting was 
the appointment of a committee of nine, to take the matter of organ- 
izing a Board of Trade and Manufactures under advisement, and to 
report at an adjourned meeting of the citizens to be held the following 
week. This committee consisted of Messrs. G. W. Merrill, G. W. 
Ladd, R. S. Morison, B. F. Tefft, M. Schwartz, W. P. Wingate, J. P. 
Bass, J. C. White and one other, whose name the records do not give. 
At the adjourned meeting the report of this committee was adopted, 
and in accordance with its recommendations a committee of ten was 
raised, to prepare a constitution and to take the necessary steps for 
organization ; said committee being composed of Messrs. G. W. 
Merrill, B. F. Tefft, J. C. White, M. Schwartz, Isaiah Stetson, Charles 
Hayward, Lysander Strickland, B. 1ST, Thorns, J. O'B. Darling and 
Isaac M. Bragg. On April 15 the meeting was held according to 
adjournment, the draught of the constitution reported by the com- 
mittee was read, and was accepted and adopted as the constitution of 
the Board of Trade and Manufactures of this port, consisting of 
Bangor and Brewer. 

The constitution having been thus ratified by the popular meeting of 
citizens from whom it sprang, and for whose benefit it was made, as 
well as signed by many citizens, in addition to the committee of ten 
who had been authorized to prepare it and organize the Board, a meet- 
ing of the signers was called to meet on the evening of Saturday, April 
27. At this and several subsequent meetings a temporary organization 
was effected, which was finally made permanent on June 4 by the 



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election, by ballot, of the following list of officers : President, Moses 
Giddings; Treasurer, S- C. Hatch; Secretary, B. F. TefFt; Vice-Presi- 
dents, LI. S. Prescott, Charles Hayward, Thomas N. Egery, D. R. 
Stockwell, J. C. White, J. S. Wheelwright, Andrew Wiggin, John 
Holyoke ; Executive Committee, G. W. Merrill, F. Muzzy, M. Schwartz, 
C. W. Roberts, H. B. Williams, C. B. Brown, J. S. Jenness, I. M. 
Bragg, D. Bugbee. The following standing committees were also 
appointed : On Relations of the Board of Trade to the City — J. S. 
Wheelwright, T. N. Egery, R. S. Prescott; Statistics— G. W. Merrill, 
Michael Schwartz, Lysander Strickland; Trade — J. C. White, C. W. 




BOARD OF TRADE ROOM. 

Ttoberts, Newell Blake ; Manufactures — F. Muzzy, Thomas Hersey, H. 
H. Fogg; Shipbuilding, Commerce and Navigation — John Holyoke, 
John H. Crosby, J. D. Warren; Transportation — William Flowers, 
Charles Hayward, J. P. Bass; Resources — Isaiah Stetson, Marcellus 
Emery, B. F. Tefft. A code of by-laws was adopted, and thus, with 
ninety-two names enrolled in its membership, came into existence the 
organization of public-spirited citizens which later developed into the 
present Bangor Board of Trade. 

At the annual meeting in January, 1873, President Gkldings de- 
clined a re-election and R. S. Prescott was chosen to the office which 



CHARLES S. PEARL, PRES. BANGOR BOARD. 



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he filled until 1881, when advancing years led him to send in his 
resignation. He was succeeded by Hon. Henry Lord, who brought 
to the position extended experience as a presiding officer, having 
been speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and President 
of the Maine Senate. In 1894, after serving as President with signal 
ability for thirteen years, Mr. Lord declined re-election, but he con- 
tinues to serve as a member of the Bo ird of Managers, and he has 
been President of the State Board of Trade since its inception in 1889. 
Charles S. Pearl Esq., who had previously shown a zealous interest 
in the organization by his efficient labors as Secretary for the decade 
of years from 1881 to 1891, was chosen Mr. Lord's successor in 1894, 
and he has continued to serve ably and efficiently as President of 
the Bangor Board. The office of Treasurer, was held continuously 
by Hon. S. C. Hatch up to the time of his death, when the present 
incumbent, J. G. Clark, was chosen. The Secretaryship has been 
held successively by B. F. Tefft, Henry Lord, J. D. Warren, C. S. 
Pearl and E. M. Blanding, the latter assuming the duties of that office 
in 1891. The other offices of the Board have undergone many 
changes, due to resignation and removals, many of the more promi- 
nent of the early members having been taken away by death. 

It was decided in 1876 to change the form of the organization to a 
corporation, and in its corporative capacity to be known as the 
Bangor Board of Trade, subject to the statute laws of the state as 
other incorporations. The necessary charter from the Legislature 
was not, however, procured until 1878, an interesting feature being 
that the charter bears the signature of a prominent member of the 
Bangor Board, Hon. Henry Lord, as Speaker of the Maine House of 
Representatives. Maine has in the vicinity of fifty Boards of 
Trade, but of this number only three — Portland, Bath and Bangor — 
are thus incorporated. At the annual meeting in 1879 the constitution 
and by-laws were revised in accordance with the changes which the 
new act of incorporation made necessary. In 1891 the constitution 
was still further revised and regular annual dues of three dollars fixed 
upon. 

The Bangor Board of Trade, which now numbers in the vicinity Of 
three hundred members, has done much as an organization of citizens 
to promote the material prosperity and business growth of the city, to 
enlarge the field of its trade, and enhance its general welfare. To this 
organization is due much of chat harmony and vigor of action which 
characterize the business community of Bangor when any question 
of public improvement or local advantage is under consideration. 



HON. HENRY LORD, PRESIDENT STATE BOARD. 



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Thiough its discussions and debates and published reports it has drawn 
attention to measures affecting the welfare of the city, shown up its 
manufacturing resources and the promising channels for the cultivation 
and development of local trade and commerce, and promoted local 
interests in all directions ; it has influenced legislation, municipal, state 
and national, and it has disseminated useful and valuable information 
concerning the city, its trade and general business, its social, educa- 
tional, sanitary and other advantages. 

From the inception of the Bangor Board of Trade it had been the 
wish of many of its members to have rooms. When Bangor's new 
City Hall was erected elegant quarters were arranged for on the ground 
floor and the same were fitted up by the Bangor Board in a sumptuous 
manner. Here are held the regular monthly meetings of the Bangor 
Board and the rooms are open during business hours daily, Sundays 
excepted. Visitors to our city are cordially welcome at the Board of 
Trade rooms, and members who have friends here from away, are 
urged to bring them to the rooms. The reading room department of 
the Board of Trade rooms is equal to anything in Maine to-day and its 
privileges are free at all times to members and their friends from away. 

The Bangor Board of Trade holds its regular monthly meetings on 
the last Monday of each mouth, and the annual meeting on the second 
Monday in January. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Bangor Board of Trade are as follows : 
President, Charles S. Pearl. 

Vice-Presidents, Edward B. Nealley, Thomas White, Julius Water- 
man. 

Secretary, Edward M. Blanding. 
Treasurer, Jonathan G. Clark. 

Board of Managers, C. S. Pearl, E. B. Nealley, Thos. White, Julius 
Waterman, Henry Lord, J. G. Clark, I. W. Coombs, H. B. Williams, 
B. B. Thatcher, C. M. Stewart, C. W. Coffin, J. F. Gerrity, J. C. Towle, 
E. C. Penney, G. W. Parker, E. M. Blanding. 

Committee on Arbitration, H. H. Fogg, James Adams, P. A, Strick- 
land, Henry Lord, John M. Oak. 

Committee on Transportation, C. V. Lord, J. G. Clark, F. W. Cram, 
I. K. Stetson, H. T. Sanborn, C. D. Stanford, P. McConville. 

Committee on Manufactures, C. S. Pearl, C. A. Gibson, G. W. Parker, 
J. Waterman, C. W. Coffin. 

Committee on Eoo ns, E. M. Blanding, J. G. Blake, B. Pol, P. H. 
Vose, M. S. Clifford. 



HON. EDWARD B. NEALLEY. 
THOMAS WHITE. JULIUS WATERMAN . 



VICE PRESIDENTS BANGOR BOAIiD. 



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Adams, Charles H. 
Adams, James 
Additon, Benning C. 
Anderson, John 
Andrews, Melville H. 
AppletoD, Frederick H. 
Atwocd, Horace 
Ayer, Fred W. 
Ayer, Nathan C. 
Babcock, Augustus H. 
Bailey, H. Franklin 
Baker, Ernest G. 
Bangs, Algernon P. 
Barrows, George W. E. 
Bartlett, Charles H. 
Bass, Joseph P. 
Beal, Flavius 0. 
Beers, Carl 
Benson, Stephen D. 
Blake, Edward H. 
Blake, Joseph G. 
Blake, William H. 
Blanding, Edward 31. 
Bliss, Charles E. 
Boutelle, Charles A. 
Bowler, John T. 
Boyd, Archibald L. 
Bragg, Charles F. 
Bragg, Norris E. 
Bragg, Warren A. 
Bragg, Willard L. 
Brett, Victor 
Brown, Charles R. 
Brown, William E. 
Brown, William M. 
Brown, Walter I. 
Bugbee, David 
Butler, Harry 
Buzzell, Frank O. 
Cameron, George F. 
Campbt-11, Edgar A. 
Chalmers, Charles L. 
Chalmers, Fred C. 
Chalmers, George S. 
Chamberlain, James K. 



Chandler, James A. 
Chapin, Arthur 
Chaplin, Amory B. 
Chapman, Harry A. 
Chapman, Harry J. 
Chapman, Horace C. 
Chapman, John E. 
Chil^ott, Langdon S. 
Clark, Isaac R. 
Clark, Jonathan G. 
Clark, John T. 
Clayton, William Z. 
Clement, Fred G. 
Clifford, Milton S. 
Coe, Thomas U. 
Coffin, Charles W. 
Collamore, Charles I. 
Collins, Patrick C. 
Coombs, Ivory W. 
Coombs, Philip H. 
Conners, Edward 
Conners, John 
Cousins, Charles 0. 
Craggin, Abbott B. 
Cram, Franklin W. 
Crosby, John L. 
Crosby, Sumner L. 
Crowley, John F. 
Cullinan, Michael J. 
Cummings, Edwin A. 
Cummings, Frank B. 
Cushing, Ruel J. 
Cutter, Leslie W. 
Cutler, James H. 
Davis, James M. 
Davis, Luuis C. 
Day, Albert R. 
Denaco, Frank P. 
Dennett, Carl P. 
Dickey, William P. 
Dillingham. Edwin F. 
Dillingham, Frederick H. 
Doherty, James 
Dole, Charles E. 
Dunning, John G. 



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JONATHAN^G. CLARK, TREASURER. 



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Drummond, Frank H. 
Duren, William G. 
Dvvelley, Horace M. 
Earle, William H. 
Edwards, Frederick A. 
Eldredge, John H. 
Emerson. Charles C. 
Engel, William 
Fairbanks, Henn N. 
Feeney, Patrick J. 
Fellows, William H. E. 
Fellows, William W. 
Fenno, Jeremiah 
Fernald, George R. 
Fickett, Oscar A. 
Field, Charles E. 
Finnigan, James P. 
Fletcher, George M. 
Fogg, Herbert A. 
Fogg, Hiram H. 
Foster, John F. 
Fox, George H. 
Freeland, George B. 
Garland, Francis J. 
Gerrity, James F. 
Gibson, Charles A. 
Giddings, Moses 
Gilman, Lindley W. 
Gilman, John T. 
Glass, Charles H. 
Glynn, James D. 
Goldberg, Louis 
Gorham, William H. 
Gould, Daniel C. 
Gould, George P. 
Gould, Joseph H. 
Grant, James L. 
Hamilton, George 
Hamlin, George H. 
Hanson, Horace F. 
Harden, George D. 
Harlow, Noah S. 
Hathorn, George H. 
Hawes, Charles T. 
Head, Walter L. 
Hellier, Walter S. 
Henderson, Eder E. 



Hight, Charles 
Hight, Frank 
Hill, Fred W. 
Holyoke, John E. 
Hook, George B. 
Hopkins, Arthur R. 
Houghton, George M. 
Hunt, Abel 
Hunt, Walter L. 
Ingalls, James M. 
Jones, James H. 
Jones, Le.^lie E. 
Jones, Nathaniel M. 
Kimball, Samuel S. 
Kingsbury, Roscoe A. 
Kirk, Edmund E. 
Lancaster, Fre 1 G. 
Leighton, Horace W. 
Lewis, Albert 
Linn, R. D. 
Lord, Charles V. 
Lord, Edwin 
Lord, Henry 
Lowell, George F. 
Lowell, Waldo P. 
Lynch, Cornelius J. 
Mansur, Wilfred E. 
Marston, Frank L. 
Mason, John 
Mason, John R. 
Mayo, E. N. 
Mayo, Henry W. 
Maxfleld, George W. 
Maxfleld, Samuel A. 
McCann, John F. 
McCann, Thomas 
McConville, Pierre 
McLaughlin, Henry 
McLean, George T. 
McNamara, ratrick H. 
Merrill, Alanson J. 
Miller, William L. 
Mitchell, Charles E. 
Mitchell, Henry L. 
Morey, Arthur J. 
Morse, Charles B. 
Nealley, Fdward B. 



EDWARD M. BLAXDING, SECRETARY. 



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Nelson, Otto 
Nichols, Eugene C. 
Nichols, Lemuel 
Nutter, George H. 
Oak, John M. 
Oakes, Charles D. 
Oliver, Hiram P. 
O'Leary, Thomas 
Osborne, Albert W. 
Palmer, Joab W. 
Palmer, Richard H. 
Palmer, William A. 
Palmer, William W. 
Parker, George W. 
Parker, John L. 
Parkhurst, Frederick H. 
Patch, Willis Y. 
Patterson, William H. 
Peakes, Henry 
Peakes, Eufus P. 
Pearl, Charles S. 
Peirce, Mellen C. 
Peirce, Wilbur E. 
Pember, Elmer F. 
Penney, Rodney C. 
Pfaff, Adolf 
Pierce, Henry O. 
Plaisted, Frank C. 
Pol, Bernhard 
Porter, Clifford C. 
Porter, Fred A. 
Prentiss, Samuel R. 
Prilay, John M. 
Pullen, Frank D. 
Pulien, George W. 
Quimby, Herbert C. 
Reilley, Robert J. 
Rice, G. Irving 
Rideout, Morton H. 
Robinson, Alex M. 
Robinson, Daniel A. 
Robinson, Frank 
Robinson, Frank A. 
Robinson, James A. 
Rogers, Stacey L. 
Rollins, Daniel G. 
Rollins, Henry 



Ross, Walter 
Ryder, Erastus C. 
Sanborn, Henry T. 
Sanger, Eugene B. 
Savage, Thomas R. 
Savage, Walter L. 
Sawyer, Andrew C. 
Sawyer, Clinton E. 
Sawyer, Howard F. 
Sawyer, N. Gates 
Sekenjjer, Adam 
Shaw, Edwin F. 
Silsby, George S. 
Simpson, Edgar M. 
Sinclair, Melville A. 
Smith, George P. 
Smith, George R. 
Smith. James F. 
Smith, J, Henry 
Smith, Ruel 
Snow, James H. 
Spofford, Parker 
Stanford, Charles"D. 
Staples, Henry O. 
Sterns, Ezra L. 
Sterns, Samuel 
Stetson, Edward 
Stetson, Isaiah K. 
Stevens, Harmon J. 
Stewart, Charles M. 
Stone, John H. 
Strickland, Frederick H. 
Strickland, Isaac 
Strickland, PLilo A. 
Sweet, Caldwell 
Swett, James M. 
Tabor, Thomas T. 
Taylor, William H. 
Thatcher, Benjamin B. 
Thatcher, George T. 
Thorns, Henry B. 
Thurston, Willis L. 
Toole, Christopher 
Towle, Josiah C. 
Towle, J. Norman 
Trask, Allan P. 
Trask, Manley G. 



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Watters, Charles A. 
Webber, Charles P. 
Webster, Jr., Daniel 
Webster, J. Fred 



Vose, Prescott H. 
Ware, Ellon W. 



Tupper, Frank H. 
Tyler, Linwood C. 
Varney, George 



Wescott, G-eorge I. 
White, Thomas 
Whiton, Walter F. 
Williams, Hiram B. 
Witham, Charles W. 
Witham, LeBaron C. 
Woodward, Charles E. 
Wyman, Edward G. 
Youngs, Frank O. 



Total, 296 



UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, 



Distant about nine miles from Bangor and easily reached from 
this city via the electric cars is the University of Maine, originally 
established as the Maine State College and picturesquely located on the 
east bank of the Stillwater river within the limits of Orono. 

The State of Maine received under an Act of Congress, approved 
July 2, 1862, a grant of two hundred and ten thousand acres of public 
land, from which the University has realized an endowment fund of 
$118,300. This has been increased by a bequest of $100,000 from Abner 
Coburn of Skowhegan who was for many years president of the Board 
of Trustees. The town of Orono contributed $8,000 and the town of 
Oldtown $3,000 for the purchase of the site on which the buildings 
stand. The State has appropriated about $300,000 for the material 
equipment. 

Under an Act of Congress approved March 2,1887, the University 
receives $15,000 annually for the maintenance of the department 
known as the Agricultural Experiment Station. Under an Act of 
Congress approved August 30, 1890, the University receives for its 
more complete endowment and maintenance, $25,000 annually. Under 
an Act of the Legislature, approved March 20, 1897, the University 
receives $20,000 annually from the State for currer f . expenses. 

From small beginnings this institution has grow 1 , to very large pro- 
portions, with many hundreds of students, with a faculty of about 
fifty, and with an equipment of eighteen buildings, large and small, 
including Wingnte Hall, Oak Hall, FernaldHall, Coburn Hall, Machine 
Shop, Experiment Station, Horticultural Building, Dairy Building, Mt. 
Vernon House, President's Home, Fraternity Houses, etc. 

The School of Law, a department of the University of Maine, was 
opened to students in the fall of 1898. It occupies commodious 
quarters in Bangor and has already scored a success far in advance of 
the most sanguine of its promoters. 



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187 Exchange Street. 

Incorporated 1863. Re-issued 1882. 

CAPITAL, $300,000. 

Annual Meeting, second Tuesday in January. 
Dividends in January and July. 
Discount Daily. 

DIRECTORS. i 

john a. peters, charles a. gibson, 

charles p. stetson, isaiah k. stetson, 

edward stetson, b. b. thatcher, 

henry Mclaughlin, h. h. fogg, 

charles h. wood. 

EDWARD STETSON, President. 
EDWARD G. WYMAN, Cashier. 

SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOE KENT at $4.00 perjear and upwards. 



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Eastern Trust <£ Banking Company 

BANGOR, ME. 

■A.FSSXXj 1st, 1887. 

Capital, $171,900. 

Surplus, $100,000. 

JOHN CASSIDY, Pres't. JAMES ADAMS, Vice Pres't. 

GEORGE B. CANNEY, Secretary. 
CHARLES D. CROSBY, Treasurer. 

Transacts a general Banking and Trust Company business. 

Accounts of Banks, Municipalities, Corporations, Firms and 
Individuals, as well as those acting in any official or trust capacity, 
solicited and every convenience extended for the proper and 
expeditious transaction of business. 

Interest paid on deposits in the Savings Department , sub- 
ject to the same rules and regulations as Savings Banks. 

Loans made on Real Estate and approved collaterals. 

A Legal Depository for Court and Trust Funds, also for 
funds in the hands of Executors, Trustees, etc., and authorized 
by law to act as Executor, Trustee or in any other Trust 
capacity. 

DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT 
IN SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULT. 




ADAMS BLOCK, W. E. MANSL'R, ARCHITECT. 



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A. C. SAWYER, President. 

R. J. SAWYER, Vice President. 

H. F. SAWYER, Secretary and Treas. 




SAWYER BOOT AND SHOE CO. 

jo§§ER3 or 

P)OOtS and 3f)OeS, 
and Hate and Caps, 

21-23-25 Columbia Street 



80 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 




A perusal of the literature published by this Company will 
show conclusively the advantages of this region for Vacationists, 
Tourists and Sportsmen. Schedules in detail, illustrated literature, 
maps, and any further information desired will be cheerfully fur- 
nished by the Passenger Department. 

F. W. CRAM, GEO. M. HOUGHTON, 

V. P. and Gen'l Mgr. Gen'l Pass'r and T'kt. Agt. 

BANGOR, ME. 



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FOGS - - D) J)) ATTENDANT 

AND 

seasickness!!! (II ills - - - 

Are an unknown quantity if you travel via 
THE ALL RAIL LINE 

The Maine Central Railroad 

IA* GOIA'G TO AX» FROM BAA'UOR 

In Pullman's Latest Pattern 

Through Drawing-Room Sleeping Gars. 



aarA word to BANGOR VISITORS 



AS TO 



DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 



SIDE 
TRIPS! 



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Wealth and Fashion, ( 

Maine's largest Lake for j 
Trout Fishing and Hunting ) 



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Full information can be obtained of all ticket agents or by 
writing 

F. E. BOOTHBY, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Portland, Me. 



The recognized coming 
Old-New Summer Resorts, 



The home of the mammoth 
Trout - . - 

The Big Game Region, a id 
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GROUP OF CITY CHURCHES. 



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Kenduskeag National Bank 

OF BANGOR. 

No. 34 Broad Street. 
Annual Meeting Second Tuesday in January. 

Dividends in April and October. 

Discount Daily. 

CAPITAL STOCK, 8100.000. 



JAMES ADAMS, President. GEORGE F. BRYANT, Cashier. 

DIRECTORS : 

JAMES ADAMS, FREDERICK W. HILL, 

J. B. FOSTER, AUGUSTUS B. FARNHAM, 

H. H. FOGG. 



Merchants Insurance Comp'yt 



BANGOR, MAINE. 



MARINE INSURANCE ONLY. 

E. B. NEALLEY, Pres't. WM. B. SNOW, Sec'y. 

DIRECTORS : 

JAMES G. PENDLETON, L . j. MORSE, 

JOHN L. CUTLER, EDWARD STETSON, 

CHAS. V. LORD, WM . B. SNOW, 

CHAS. P. STETSON, E . B . NEALLEY. 
JOHN CASSIDY, 




GROUP OF CITY CHURCHES. 



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SAMUEL S. KIMBALL, 
Real Estate, - Timber Lands, - Conveyancing* 

REAL ESTATE MORTGAGES NEGOTIATED. 

25 State, 214 Exchange Streets, - - Bangor, Me. 
JOHN E. HOLYOKE, 

DEALER IN MASTS, SPARS, KNEES, I>E€K FLANK, WHARF 
PILES AM) SHIP STI FF GENERALLY. OAK LIMBER ALL 
THICKNESS, SPRUCE DIMENSIONS, PINE AND 
HEMLOCK BOARDS. 

Office, Near Eastern End Bangor Bridge. P. 0. Address, Brewer, Me. 

II. I.. I ) a v7~ 
Manufacturer of Spring Beds, Cots and Mattresses, 

Telephone 348-3. 98 GRANT STREET, BANGOR. 



D. G. ROLLINS. 3S\ G. SAWYER. 

BANGOR MANUFACTURING CO., 

Manufacturers of and Wholesale Dealers in 

Woven Wire Mattresses, Cots, Spring Beds, 
Excelsior Mattresses, 

Mi EXCHANGE STREET, BANGOR, ME. 

— «m^— g=; ni m i ,i mma scbmi i i mm — — n m m i ■ n ■ 1 1 ■ i p— — — 

CONANT &c CARR, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

CEDAR* SHINGLES, 

OLDTOWN, MAINE. 

E. W. CONANT. DAVID CARR. 



Pastctrised Maine Cream. 

We make a Specialty of PURE RICH CREAM. 

Best in the world for Coffee, Fruit and Desserts. 

G. W. SMITH, 

Creamery at 118 -122 Franklin Street, Bangor, Me. 



186 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

J. H. HAYNES, President and Treasurer. L. C. WHITE, Secretary. 

yams Miners 

COMPANY, 

Wholesale Dealers in 

HARDWARE, 

BAR IRON, 

Steel, Carriage Stock, 
Paints, Oils, 
Doors, Sash, Blinds, 
&c.. 

Agents for Kellogg's Paints. 

190 - 194 Exchange Street, 

BANGOR, ME. 




R F N O I T THE WIDE AWAKE > 

' ENTERPRISING, ONE PRICE 

CLOTHING 
COMPANY 



CLOTHING and FUR- 
NISHING GOODS 
HOUSE, 20 State St., 

BANGOR, ME. 



/{bel Hunt, 

Funeral Director & Practical Embalmer. 

Wholesale dealer in Caskets and Trimmings. 

25 EAST MARKET SQUARE, BANGOR, ME. 

Branch Store, Main St., Both Offices and Residence 

Bar Harbor. connected by Telephone. 

Established a quarter century. 



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187 



Bangor's Largest Clothing House 

ALWAYS IN THE LEAD 

With all the newest and most popular styles of 

MEN'S AND BOY'S 

CLOTHING! 

Mail orders promptly attended to. 

J. WATERMAN, 



STRICTLY ONE PRICE 
CLOTHIER, 



161, 163, 165 Exchange St., Bangor, 

The trade supplied at Wholesale Prices. 



Q^ n g° y ©atfy Commercial 



Largest Circulation m Maine, 



Q&m 3 or Tfoeggg Commercial 



Oyer 28,000 Circulation. 



office:, union block, main st. 



'ST. JOHN'S CATHOLIC CHURCH, REV. EDWARD MCSWEENEY, PASTOR. 



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18 9 



Bangor & Bar Harbor Steamboat Eo. 



Three Trips per Week Thoughout the Summer. 

STEAMER CIMBRIA 

Leaves Bangor every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, at 7-30 a.m. 
RETURNING— Leaves Bar Harbor 
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, at 7.00 a. m. 

ONE OF THE LOVELIEST TRIPS IN MAINE. 

Fare— Bangor to Bar Harbor, $1.50. 

Five-Day Excursion Ticket, $2.00. Meals served. 

PENOBSCOT" BAY ROUTE. 
Steamer SEDGWICK leaves Bangor daily for all Bay Points. 
GEO. H. BARBOUR, Pres't. H. W. BARBOUR, Gen. Mg'r. 



Bangor Stoneware Co., 



MANUFACTURERS OF 




Pressed Ware 




of every description, 



and dealers in 
EARTHEN, 
ROCKINGHAM, 
YELLOW & WHITE 



WARE 



PATTED STREET, 



BANGOR", 



MAINE 



COLUMBIA STREET BAPTIST CHURCH. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 191 

Emerson?, Blaise 9 /kiams Qp., 

[Successors to Emerson & Adams and Clark & Blake,] 
JOBBERS OF 

DryOpa^eyQoods 

LUnPERnEN'J" SUPPLIER 



ALL KINDS OF 

Insurance 

CAN BE PROCURED OF 

Blake, borrows & brown, 

--BANKERS- 

AND DEALERS IN STOCKS & BONDS, 
NO. 9 CENTRAL ST., BANGOR. 



192 



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ESTABLISHED 1839. 
INCORPORATED 1894. 



40 - 42 Broad St., Bangor, Me. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 



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New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, 

For the accommodation of a certain class of 
communications have established a 

NIGHT RATE \W/ ONE-HALF 

between T^oSc^T ^ e 

6 P. M. and 6 A. M. RATE. 

Minimum night-rate is 15 cents except where the day-rate is less. 

Very convenient for a social chat with friends 
in a distant city, the making of appointments 
and other uses which may occur to you. 

SAVE TIME, TRAVEL, A MESSAGE 

TROUBLE AND MONEY BY TELEPHONE 

BY USING THE BRINGS 

TELEPHONE. IMMEDIATE ANSWER. 



LOST! 



The man without a telephone. The busi- 
ness world seldom hears anything of him, 
and the sphere in which he moves is grow- 
ing smaller every day, until it will eventual- 
ly become like this O 

Moral :— Get a TELEPHONE. 
The Hew England Telephone and Telegraph Company. 



RECEPTION ROOM. READING ROOM. 

RECEPTION ROOM. PARLOR. 

YOUXG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION BUILDING. 



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195 




PLEASED 

With one's CLOTHES is a 
large part of contentment. 
-q We always try to please 
JSLp our customers, and this ac- 
! T _____ ' counts for the large amount 
p of fi ne trade we are getting. 
Our stock is of the best 
quality, and up to date. 



HOOPER, THE TAILOR, 



NO. 6 STATE ST., BANGOR, ME 



OPEN THE YEAR ROUND. 

tor Co 



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Teaches the ELLIS SYSTEM 

of Actual Business from the Start. 

The same System taught by the Eastman, Burdett, 
Bryant & Stratton, and all other up to date Colleges. 
We are the only College in Maine teaching this System. 

NOW IS THE TIME TO ENTER. 

THOMAS W. BURR, 
MARY B. EDGECOMB, 

Commercial Department. 
MARY E. BEAL, Shorthand Department. 



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Bangor Savings Bank 

OF BANGOR. 

No. 3 State Street. 
Deposits, $3,508,506.20. Organized 1852. 

SAMUEL F. HUMPHREY, President. 
JOHN L. CROSBY, Treasurer. 
E. F. RICH, Assistant Treasurer. 

Directors : 

JAMES ADAMS, CHAS. V. LORD, 

S. F. HUMPHREY, MOSES GIDDINGS, 

FRED'K H. APPLETON. 

Total amount of dividends declared to Oct. 1, '99, $2,752,666.70. 
Dividends payable the first Monday of April and October. 



H. P. SARGENT. D. A. SARGENT. 

D. SARGENT'S SONS, 

IRERS OF 

LUMBER 



MANUFACTURERS OF 

SPRUCE, PINE 

AND HEMLOCK 



Clapboards and Shingles. 

And Dealers in PENOBSCOT RIVER ICE. 

Bangor Office, 76 Exchange St. 
Mills and Ice Houses, = = South Brewer. 

TELEPHONE CONNECTION, 326=2. 

Post Office Address, South Brewer, Maine. 



198 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

{pxtzcott uxnxtuxt §toxt 

CEO. B. FR E ELAND, Proprietor, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN 

Parnitare, 
Peatf)ers, 

am ... . 

Clpfyolsterv, 
Goocfe 
^Yirrors, 
5princr 

life 

24 and 26 Central Street, 

BANGOR, ME. 




BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 199 

To Of a 

FOR A 16 CANDLE POWER LAMP per HOUR is the 

HIGHEST RATE 

YOU CAN PAY US FOR 

ELECTRIC LIGHTS, 

If you use enough you can have them for 



| of a Qept 



3 

PER 16 CANDLE POWER LAMP PER HOUR. 

GOOD LIGHT 
GOOD AIR 
LOW PRICE 
NO DIRT 
NO HEADACHES 



Power for Manufacturing- Very Cheap. 
PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY, 

42 PARK STREET. 



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201 



E. & I. K. STETSON, 
Ship Builders & Repairers, 

PROPRIETORS OF 

Bangor and Brewer Marine Railways, 

AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN 

PENOBSCOT RIVER ICE. 

HARD PINE 

Of all sizes and lengths constantly on hand. 



Capacity of Large Railway, 1000 Tons. 
Capacity of Ice Houses, 3?,ooo Tons. 

Office, ISO Exchange Street, 

BANGOR, ME. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

TIE ATKINSON FURNISHING 



203 



DEALERS IN 



FURNITURE 




For the Parlor, Library and Dining Room. 

For the Hall, Chamber and Kitchen. 

Carpets, Bedding, Draperies, 

And COflPLETE HOUSE FURNISHINGS of Every Description. 
25,000 square feet of Floor Surface. 
LARGEST HOUSE FURNISHERS IN MAINE. 
LOWEST PRICES ALWAYS. Cash or Instalments. 

Free Delivery within ten miles of Bangor. Established ten years. 

A. J. MOREY, Manager. Central and Franklin Streets. 



204 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

LVFORD S WOODWARD, 

Hatters and Furriers, 

Fur Garments made to order. 
Furs Altered, Made Over or Repaired 
in the best manner. 



Agents for Dunlap & Stetson's 

New York and Philadelphia 

HATS. 

Highest market prices paid for Raw Furs 

Cor. Hammond & Central Sts., Bangor. 



Andrews' MusiG House 





BAN GOB AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 205 

PEN0B3C0T 

3AVING3 BARF), 

Organized February 3, 18 6 9. 



President : 
FRANKLIN A. WILSON. 



^Trustees * 

FRANKLIN A. WILSON. " NATHAN C. AYER, 

CHARLES HAMLIN, PHILO A. STRICKLAND, 

THOMAS U. COE. 

Treasurer : 
GEORGE H. HOPKINS. 

Assistant Treasurer: 
ALBION J. WHITMORE. 

DEPOSITS, SEPTEMBER 9, 1899, $2,183,592.88. 



C. D. PRESSEY, 



MANUFACTURER OF 



Paper Boxes, 

and Orions of zstzy% description, 
47 French Street, Bangor. 



Orders by Mail promptly attended to. 



Telephone 351-3. 



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HENRY LORD. EDWIN LORD. 

HENRY LORD & CO., 

SHIP t BROKERS* AND I COMMISSION * MERCHANTS, 

■\7\7"22.©lesa.le HDesilexs iaa. 

Penobscot River Ice, Bricks, Hay, Roofing Slate, 
Last Blocks, Spruce, Pine and Hemlock Lumber. 

COASTWISE AIVD FOREIGBf CHARTERS PROCURED. 
FIRE A.\l> MARINE INSURANCE EFFECTED. 

OFFICE, 79 EXCHANGE ST., BANGOR, ME. 

TRY THE 

WINDSOR 

Bangor, Me. 

Entirely Re-"b"uilt inside with. 
Modern Improvements. 

FREE CARRIAGE. 

F. W. DURGXN, Proprietor. 

GUS MOODY, ) n , 

C. E. Pendleton, \ ^ ierKS * 



^ y^^f Photographer, 

^ 6 State Street, Bangor, He. 

PORTRAITS in Silver, Platinum and Carbon. 

Miniatures on Ivory and Celluloid, BROOCHES, &c. 
Interiors by Flash Light a specialty. Crayons and Pastels. 

Cameras and Supplies for Amateurs. 



210 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

If it's to wear 
you'll find it at 

The 

Fashion 

— •* — — *m — : — 

STYLE & ECONOMY 

Larger stocks in every 
department. 

Better goods and 
lower prices than ever. 
Never in its history has Bangor's Popular Store 
been so well equipped to serve its thousands of 
patrons. 

" Everything a Woman or Child Needs to Wear " 

at prices that have made ' this store famous. 

WOOD & EWER, Bangor, Me. 




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111 



MAINE'S MOST POPULAR NEWSPAPER 

IS CLEARLY 

( 50 CENTS A MONTH ; $6.00 A YEAR.) 

Its long subscription list — its enormous sales at news stands — 
its clientage among the leading advertisers — all are proof of its 
widespread popularity. 

It's a bright, clean paper for readers. It's a hustling trade- 
puller for advertisers. No other Maine daily has so large a cir- 
culation. For proof, address 

THE BANGOR PUBLISHING CO., 
150-152 Exchange Street, Bangor, Maine. 

W. L. THURSTON, R. A. KINGSBURY. 

THURSTON & KINGSBURY, 
WHO L E S A LE GfRpff E R S, 

AND JOBBERS OF 

64-68 Broad Street, . . Bangor, Me. 



Connecticut 



(mufuaf 



Btfc Jn*urance 



Company 



IT OFFERS EXPERIENCE, 

EQUITY, SIMPLICITY, 
AND STRENGTH. 

This was the first Company in the United 
States to issue Life and Endowment Policies 
with a 3 per cent. Reserve, which it adopted 
over 17 years ago, and which is now being 
followed by other companies. 

The contracts issued by this Co. state in plain 
figures the amount of cash and paid up values.— 
Largest Cash Values for the Lowest Premiums. 

H. N. FAIRBANKS, Gen'l Agent. 
No. 47 Main Street. Bangor, Me. 




ST. JAMES HOTEL. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 



213 



St. James Motel 

BANGOR, MAINE. 

CHRIS. TOOLE, Proprietor. 

Special Rates to Theatrical People. 

One Block from Opera House. 

aiso, La^e View Motel 

A fine Resort nine miles from Bangor. Fine boating and fishing. 
Special rates to Summer Boarders. Address 

CHRIS. TOOLE, Bangor, Me. 

DR. BUKERS KIDNEY PILLS. 

The Greatest Medical Wonder of the Age ! 

Their properties are to cleanse, heal and strengthen the 
Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary Organs, creating a healthy ac- 
tion so that the whole system will work in unison, thus giv- 
ing strength and a new lease of life. They are entirely veg- 
etable, and being in pill form contain no alcohol which is 
poison to sick kidneys, and which is necessary in all liquid 
medicines to prevent fermentation. Neither do they contain 
drugs of any kind, and therefore can be taken by the most 
delicate patient or child. 

Dr. Buker's Kidney Pills are put up in handsome, sealed 
tin boxes, each box containing about 100 pills, and retail at 
50 cents per box, or six boxes for $2.50. 

Compounded by THE BUKER PILL CO., Bangor, Me. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 215 

JAMES M. DAVIS, 
Contractor and Builder, 

Office, 17 Broad Street, 
Residence, 105 Third Street, 

BANGOR, MAINE. 

IPS^Builder of the Auditorium, illustrated on page 17, and the 
Standpipe, shown on opposite page. 

DAVIS & HODGINS, 
j£ Architects. M 



Plans and Specifications Furnished on Application. 

17 Broad Street, 

JAMES M. DAVIS, R A MOOR 

VICTOR HODGINS. DRINVJIWR 



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BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 



A Reliable Laundry 

Is a CAREFUL Laundry — a THOUGHTFUL Laundry. 
The business is studied as a doctor studies medicine — as a 
dentist studies dentistry. Don't judge this Laundry by all 
Laundries — that would be unfair. If you have never been 
able to get satisfaction don't think that there is no laundry 
satisfaction in the world. There is : You'll find it right here. 




PENOBSCOT AND WHITE STAR STEAM LAUNDRIES, 

PORTER & PARSONS, Proprietors, 
150 Main Street. Telephone 6-4. 18-20 Cross St. 

PENOBSCOT DYThOOSEAMDmCARPET DUSTER. 

Ladies' and Gent's Garments of every description CLEANSED, DYED 
and REFINISHED in the best manner, at short notice and low prices. 
CARPETS CLEANED AND LAID. 

CARPETS, FEATHER BEDS and MATTRESS WORK a Specialty. 
Our customers are our references. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 217 

THIS PAGE BELONGS TO 

J, F. GERRITY & CO,, 

WHO MADE MANY OF THE PHOTOS 
REPRESENTING THE INDUSTRIES 
OF BANGOR. # * * * * * 



They carry Everything Pertaining z Picture Business 

And are doing- the largest business in New England 
in the following lines : 



Pictures, * * * 
Jtlli Picture Frames, * *W%^\ 

II! .'■■niHHHi fiS^i Mirrorc ->«. WssSS SSmmv 1 

'f^SSjs^-,. . I V I I I i U I o j *o '» x J|||p»«'^ 

F a QP I Q *k ^ ^ 

x# #fl Photographic Supplies.!*^ 

THEY MAKE A SPECIALTY IN 

COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 

A.\ I> At,t, ITS BRANCHES. 

J. F. GERRITY & CO., 

No. II State Street, No. 244 Middle Street, 

BANGOR, ME. PORTLAND, ME. 



ENGINEERING BUILDING, UNIVERSITY OF MAINE. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 



219 



The University of Maine, 

ORONO, MAINE. 

THE Undergraduate Courses of Study are arranged in four 
groups. All except the short courses require four years 
and lead to degrees. Instruction in military science is given to 
all men students except those in the School of Law. The organ- 
ization is as follows : 

College of Arts and Sciences. 

Classical Course, Latin Scientific Course, Scientific Course, 
Chemical Course, Preparatory Medical Course. 

College of Agriculture. 

Agricultural Course, Special Course in General Agriculture, 
Special Course in Horticulture, Special Course in Dairying. 

College of Engineering. 

Civil Engineering Course, Mechanical Engineering Course, 
Electrical Engineering Course. 

College of Pharmacy. 

Pharmacy Course (four years), Short Pharmacy Course 
(two years). 

dy Expenses, including University fees, board and rooms, 
$1 75oO. Loans covering tuition, are provided for needy students. 
A new dormitory for women. Rooms in the dormitories are free. 

The School ot Law is located in Bangor. Maintains a three 
years course leading to the degree of LL.B. Tuition $60. a year. 
The only other charge is for diploma. 

The Faculty includes 49 names ; students number 3 50. The 
equipment includes 18 buildings, large and small, 9 well equipped 
laboratories, museum, herbarium, shops and library. 

For illustrated catalogue and circulars, address. 

A. W. HARRIS, President, Orono, Me. 



222 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

GRAND CENTRAL 



LIVERY, HACK AND BOARDING 




LEMUEL NICHOLS, Proprietor. 
C. W. NICHOLS, Gen'l Manager. 



BAROUCHES, LANDAUS AND BUCKBOARDS. 

Hacks for Funerals, Wedding Parties, 

Boats, Cars, Operas, Theaters, Etc. 

Best Accommodation for Boarding of Horses. 
•Best Boarding Parlors in the State. 

86 AND 88 CENTRAL STREET, BANGOR, ME. 

TELEPHONE 107-2. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 223 

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Hampden 

Creamery 

F. W. HOPKINS, Proprietor, 
Cor. Sixth and Pier Sts., Bangor, Me- 

TELEPHONE CONNECTION. 

a ir* j J^ir *JL*>lJL* JL* & JL* jL ^ & JL* J JL V ^ JL* * JL* * JL M •* JL^ * JL V ^Jt^ ^iiL* ^a L^ J *L V ^aL* ^aL* 

IN CONNECTION WITH CREAMERY IS A 

MINERAL SPRING 

From which the PUREST OF WATER, 

put up in glass bottles of a gallon capacity 
is supplied to customers in Bangor and 
vicinity. . 

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BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 225 

ARTHUR CHAPIN & CO. 
Wholesale Grocers & Cement, 

92 BROAD STREET, BANGOR. 




RECEIVING WHARVES 
FRONT ST., BANGOR. 
PENOBSCOT SO- BREWER- 



OFFICE, 17 
KENDUSKE 



Wilder s. varney, 

FUNERAL DIRECTOR and 

FURNISHING UNDERTAKER, 

35 PARK STREET, BANCOR, ME. 

Graduate New York School of Embalming. 
Night Call at Office, private telephone connection with residence from office . 

WM, Z. CLAYTON & CO. 

Wholesale and Retail Furnishing 

^UNDERTAKERS^ 

As Funeral Director - - MAJ. WM. Z. CLAYTON. 

Office, 110 Hammond Street, 



By Telephone. 

House, 102 Forest Avenue, 




BASS BLOCK, W. E. MANSUR, ARCHITECT. 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 



227 



PEARL & DENNETT, 

^BROKERS.& 



REAL ESTATE 

INSURANCE 

STOCKS AND BONOS 
LOANS NEGOTIATED 



Bought and Sold, Rents Collected and 
general care of property on fair commis- 
sions. — 29 years experience. 
Representing nine of the strongest com- 
panies, we write Insurance on all classes 
of property at lowest rates. 
Bought and Sold for cash or on com- 
mission. Orders immediately executed 
on N. Y. and Boston Stock Exchanges. 
On Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds at 
prevailing rates of interest. 



Long Distance Telephone. 

45 Hammond St., 



Correspondence Solicited. 

Next door to Eastern Trust & Banking Co. 
and directly opposite City Hall. 




Portland, Augusta, Bangor, Houlton. 

The largest Business College in the State of Maine. 
Actual Business by mail and [common carrier, Office 

Practice from the start. 
Special attention to Penmanship and Shorthand. 
Students assisted to Positions. 

Fine quarters in BASS BLOCK, entrance opposite City Hall. 

SPECIAL DEPARTMENT OF TELEGRAPHY in Portland School. 
For fine Catalogue address, F. L. SHAW, Pres., Portland, Me. 

G. D. HARDEN, Treas., Bangor. 



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229 



What is it that Everyone is Talking About? 

The Banpr Daily Whig & Courier. 

^jJf)^? Because it is the most popular paper in 
Bangor. It leads all others, and is the most 
Up-to-Date Paper in the State. 

Only Paper in Eastern Maine with a Complete Half-tone Plant. 

# # # It goes into the home of the people and is therefore 
UNEXCELLED AS AN ADVERTISING MEDIUM. 
Every Granger Should Subscribe for the WEEKLY COURIER. 

WHY 9 Because it presents the greatest inducements 

"HI . EVER OFFERED IN THE STATE. 

The Courier has been enlarged to Sixteen pages, and offers a PIANO 
AND CARRIAGE for the most popular Grange Officers. 

DO NOT FAIX. TO BEAD OUR GREAT AIOTOU1VCEME1YT. 

WHIG AND COURIER PUBLISHING CO. 




Headquarters for 

Builders' Hardware, Mantel and 
Fire-place Supplies, 
Golf Goods, Fishing Tackle, 
Bicycles, Guns and Ammunition, 
Black Powder and Dynamite, 
Paints, Doors and Windows, 
Lumbermen's and Railway 
Supplies, Skates, Cutlery. 



COME AND SEE US. 

RICE & MILLER, 

28 Broad St., Bangor. 



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231 



WILLARD CUTTER, LESLIE W. CUTTER. 

WILLAED CUTTER & SON, Bangor, 

Architects, i Carpenters, * Contractors i and I Jobbers. 

Plans, Specifications, Estimates and Bills of Material furnished 
on short notice at low cost. Contracts taken for all 
classes of work. Special attention given to all kinds 
of Small Jobbing. 

W. H. GORHAM. 

Plain and Decorative Painting and Paper Hanging. 
Pictures and Framing to order. 
Artists' Materials, Cameras and Photographers' Supplies. 
48 STATE STREET, [Telephone, 14-2 . ] BANGOR, ME. 

J, 03, L\i LULL £3, 

54 MAIN STREET, BANCOR. 



FLETCHER & BUTTERFIELD 

IS THE BEST PLACE TO BUY 

Ml&Mf ili Sliltti Willi?) 

Dealers in Marble and Marbleized Slate, Calcined 
. Plaster, Chimney Pie:es and Shelves, Skimming 
Sand, Vases, BDuquet Holders, &c. and all kinds of 
Cemetery Work. East Market Sq., Bangor. 



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. :q_ c. o-otji^hd, 

Manufacturer of HaflieSSeS, 

AND DEALER IN 

Blankets, Robes,Trunks, Bags &c. 

PRICES THE VERY LOWEST. 

18 Hammond St., West End Kenduskeag Bridge, Bangor, Me. 




in Your Business 

You can probably see 
where my services 
would be good to have. 

Collections, 

Conveyancing, 
Notary Public Service 
are all in my line. 

Write me ; I will tell you what 
I have done for others and what 
I can do for yon. 

CHAS. R. OLIVER, 

3 Park Street, Bangor. 




CURRIER & HOOK, 
Sail Makers, 

66 Exchange St., Bangor, Me. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Tents, Awnings, Flags, Hunters' Supplies, 

Waterproof Bags, Knapsacks, Packing Cases, 
Sleeping Bags and Waterproof Horse Covers. 
Wide Duck for Canoes, also our Peerless 
ADJUSTABLE HAMMOCK CHAIR. 
All goods at Lowest Cash Prices. 



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The Be^t Hutvtirvg Boot \W the World 

is acknowledged to be the CELEBRATED 



Made toy _ ' 



E, A. Buck <5c Co., Bangor, Me. 

Made from waterproof Japonica leather — soft, dur- 
able and desirable. Send for catalogue of these and 
many other styles. 




Bar^or Brie^ U/orl\s, 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

ALL KINDS OF BUILDING MM, 

W. S. HELLIER & CO., 
Cor, Fourth and Parker Sts., Bangor, Me. 



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Kineo Coal Furnaces, 

Kineo Wood Furnaces, 
New Kineo 'Ranges, 
Kineo Franklins, 

Kineo Coal Parlors, 
Kineo Wood Parlors. 

MANUFACTURED BY 

NOYES & NUTTER MF'C CO. 



FOURTH OF JULY AT BANGOR'S SUMMER THEATRE. 



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239 



THATCHER & SON, 



MANUFACTURERS 
AND DEALERS 



n ]JJM BE R , 



Hemlock Boards, and Pine and Spruce 
Box Boards a Specialty. 

112 and 114 Exchange St., Bangor, Me. 

FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. 

D EFORE buying elsewhere call and examine my Select Line 
of Samples from the leading houses in Boston and New York. 
I guarantee Best Workmanship, using the Finest of Trimmings. 

LADIES, don't go away to get your Tailor -Made 
Costumes, when you can patronize a home-tailor, having the 
benefit of trying on. 

A. E. MILLER, Merchant Tailor, 

89 MAIN STREET, BANGOR, ME. 

We guarantee our big ^ We make clean, clear, 
Dusters to f Well set 



CAI3PETS 

thoroughly — inside, 
outside and all between. 



We sell Inks and Pads, 
and Cut Stencils. 



W. H. EARLE & CO., 1Q7 Exchange St., Bangor 

SOUVENIES. 

Photographic Views of Bangor and vicinity, in stock or printed 
to order, mounted or unmounted. 

WILLIAM H. BLACAR, Jeweler, 

4 STATE STREET, BANGOR, ME. 




.1 AMES A. ROBINSON & 80N ? S CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT. 



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GUARANTEES PROTECTION 

To the man wearing the garment to which it is attached 
against the possibility of misfit or unserviceable fabric. Thirty- 
five years of business service, built up on a foundation of 
honorable dealing, has given the public confidence in our 
methods. Thousands of the best dressed men in Eastern 
Maine are our customers. 

We take front rank in every department. 

Fine Custom Tailoring, 
Ready to Wear Clothing, 

(OUR OWN MANUFACTURE), 

Men's Furnishing Goods, 
Hats and Caps. 

Each department a Store of itself, is complete with the 
newest fabrics and latest novelties of the season. 

As Manufacturers and Wholesalers we are in a position 
to offer the Best Goods at Lowest Possible Prices. 

We extend a cordial invitation to the public to inspect 
our stock. You will find our goods and prices right. 



JAMES A. ROBINSON & SON, 

WHEELWRIGHT & CLARK'S BLOCK, BANGOR. 



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243 



N. H. BRAGG & SONS, 



to:b:b:e:k.s or 



Iron, Steel & Heavy HARDWARE, 
Carriage Hardware and Woodwork. 

SUPPLIES FOE 

BLACKSMITHS, MACHINISTS, 
CARRIAGE MAKERS, MILLS. 

LUMBERMEN, CONTRACTORS, 
RAILROADS. 

74 - 78 Broad St., Bangor, Me. 

BANGOR PHONOGRAPH CO., 

WHOLESALE AIV» RETAIL DEALERS E¥ 

Phonographs & Records, 

BIGYGLES AND SUNDRIES, 

-^STEREOPTICONS^ 
COIN SLOTS, PICTURE MACHINES, 

Music Boxes, Cash Registers, etc. 
42 Harlow St., and 117 Exchange St., 

BANGOR, ME. 



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Bangor 
Exchange 



MOESE & JOED AN, 

PROPRIETORS. 

F. W. COBURN, Mgr. 



\ Bookseller, Stationer 

E. F. DILLINGHAM, j 

successor to f BLANK BOOK MANUFACTURER. 
D. BUGBEE & CO., J WaM p ape rs, Sterling Silver, 

BANGOR, ME. a 

****** a and Fine Leather Goods. 




JAMES P. FINNIGAN, 

Snmxanct 

AND 

Real Estate Agency, 

76 Main Street, Bangor. 



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Every Business Man***** 



who wishes to keep abreast of the times 
should subscribe for and read regularly 

MAINE'S LEADING BUSINESS WEEKLY, 




An illustrated newspaper, giving each week a 
record of the progress in Manufactures, Build- 
ing, Commerce, Shipbuilding, Railway and Steam- 
ship, Fish and Game, Hotel and Summer Resort, 
Financial interests, of Maine and the Northeast. 

& 

Sample Copies Free. 
Subscription Price $2. 00 a Year in Advance. 



117 Exchange Street, Bangor, Me. 



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For First- Class Tailoring 

GO TO 

LOUIS GOLDBERG & GO. 

20 Central Street, Bangor. 



Suits to Measure, $15, and up. 
Pants to Measure, $4.00 and up. 



BISBEE B. MERRILL, 

And dealer in Druggist Sundries, Toilet Articles, Books 
and Stationery. 

Corner Main and Center Sts., - Brewer, Me. 

Sunday Hours :— 9 to 10 A. M. ; 4 to 6 P. M. 

TELEPHOiVE IVO. 3.18-3. 




FOX & ADAMS, 

Fancy Bakers & Caterers, 

Manufacturers and Wholesale and 
Retail Dealers in 

CONFECTIONERY, 

ICE CREAM, &c. 

Ladies' and Gents' CAFE Connected. 

MEALS AT Alvt, HOURS. 
Agents for Hildreth's Molasses Kisses 

27 Main St., Bangor. 



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E. H. Gerrish, 

MANUFACTURER OF 

CANVAS CANOES k ROW BOATS, 

Oars and Paddles. 

Factory, Valley Avenue* 

Office and Warerooms t Cor, D A XT/^OO H/l C 

Exchange and Hancock Sts., L>/\1> VJV^K* C» 

Write for Catalogue and Prices. 




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INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS 
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Adams Block '>ti\ 178 

Alms House. 196 

America's First Iron Steamship, " Bangor," 32 

Andrews' Music House 204 

Areh, Niben Club Bicycle Path 21 

Atkinson Furnishing Company, Home of 202 

Interior of Store 203 

Auditorium 17 

Bangor & Aroostook Railroad, Vestibule Train ; 82 

" " " Yard at Millinockett 86 

Viaduct — Piscataquis Division 84 

" Exchange 244 

" Gas Light Co.'s Plant t 150 

" Harbor in Early Winter 30 

" House 72 

" Dining Hall 73 

" Stone Ware Co.'s Pottery 189 

" Theological Seminary 60 

" Water Works 68 

" Views in Miniature 18 

Bass Block 226 

Big Pump at Water Works 70 

Bird's Eye View from Standpipe 8 

Blanding, Edward M 172 

Board of Trade Room 163 

Boffin's Bower, Niben Club Path 20 

Boutelle, Hon. Charles A 27 

British Steamship, Deal Laden, Leaving Bangor Harbor 44 

Broadway Park 48 

Building Erected by Major J. M. Davis 214 

Business Centre from State Street 5 

" Section from Unitarian Church 65 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 253 

Centre Park 48 

Central Congregational Church 182 

Chapin, Hon. Arthur 63 

Children's Home 47 

City Churches, Group of 182 

" 184 

City from the Mouth of the Kenduskeag 36 

City Hall 6 

" City of Bangor" and " Penobscot," passing in the Narrows 91 

City Parks.. 48 

Clark, Jonathan G 170 

Columbia Building 38 

Columbia Street Baptist Church 190 

Company G, N. G. S. M 242 

County Jail 61 

Court House 61 

Custom House 39 

Davenport Park 48 

Dice's Head on Bangor & Bar Harbor Route 94 

Dudley Bridge, over the Kenduskeag 236 

Eastern Maine General Hospital 54 

" " Insane Hospital 22 

" Manufacturing Company, Lumber Mills 136 

" " " Pulp and Paper Mills 137 

" " " Shipping from Mills 138 

" Trust and Banking Company, Branches 108 

Interior Views 106 

Eastward from City Hall Tower „ 11 

Elijah Low Hose House 43 

English Tramp Steamships 55 

Entrance to Niben Club Bicycle Path 19 

Episcopal Church 182 

Essex Street Free Baptist Church 184 

Exchange Street Railroad Station 80 

Falls on the Kenduskeag 14 

First Baptist Church 184 

First Congregational Church QQ 

First National Bank, Interior Views 98 

Foreign Steamships at High Head 34 

Forest Avenue Park 48 

Fourth of July at Bangor's Summer Theatre 238 



254 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 



Hamlin, Hon. Hannibal 25 

Hammond Street Congregational Church 182 

Hampden Creamery 147 

Haynes & Chalmers Co's Store 186 

Hersey, Hon. Samuel F 29 

Highlands, from Lovers' Leap 10 

High School 74 

Home for Aged Women 46 

Home of First National Bank 96 

Into City's Heart from Hammond Street 7 

Italian Ship at High Head 42 

Italian Steamship at Sterns Mills 64 

Journal Publishing Company - 250 

King's Daughter's Home 45 

Locomotive " Pioneer," 31 

Looking up Broad Street 58 

Lord, Hon. Henry 166 

Lovers' Leap 9 

Lumber Docks on the Penobscot 56 

Lumber Raft Passing through Sluice at Bangor Dam 120 

Lyford & Woodward's Store 204 

Maine Central Railroad Bridge over the Penobscot 81 

" " " Station 78 

Masonic Block 41 

Maxfield's Wool Factory 143 

McConville, Pierre 235 

McSweeney, Rev. Edward 188 

Morse & Co.'s Office 128 

Morse & Co.'s Plant 130 

Morse-Oliver Block 16 

Mount Hope Cemetery 59 

Entrance 224 

Mount Pleasant Cemetery 188 

Nealley, Hon. Edward B 168 

Niben Club House 50 

" in Winter 51 

Niben Club's New Bicycle Path 175 

Nichols Block 96 

Nichols, Lemuel 222 



BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 255 

Noyes & Nutter Mfg. Co.'s Foundry 146 

Norombega Hall 202 

Oliver, C. R 233 

On the Banks of the Kenduskeag ,.. 228 

On the Kenduskeag, above Bull's Eye Bridge 28 

" " in Winter 28 

" " Segeunkedunk 26 

One of Sekenger's Pink Houses 149 

Opera House 40 

Palm Street Grammar School 76 

Parker & Peakes Shoe Factory 124 

" " " " '■ 126 

Parkhurst's Trunk Factory. 132 

Pearl, Charles S ... 164 

Penobscot Central Railroad 116 

Exchange 206 

" River 33 

Pine Street Methodist Church 184 

Post Office 39 

Prescott Furniture Co.'s Store ; . . . . 198 

Pressey's Box Factory 126 

Public Works Co.'s Car House 156 

" Power Station at Veazie 152 

Sub Station, Park Street 153 

" Switchboard — front 154 

rear 155 

Residenee of Hon. F. A. Wilson 24 

Rice & Miller's Store 229 

Riverside Park 1 58 

Riverward from Universalist Church 13 

River View 57 

Robinson, J. A. & Son 240 

Sargent's Sons, Mills and Ice Houses 142 

Sawyer Boot and Shoe Co.'s Store 178 

Scene on the Kenduskeag . 52 

Sekenger's Green Houses 148 

St. James Hotel 212 

St. John's Catholic Church 188 

" " Parochial Residenee 188 

" " " School 188 



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256 BANGOR AND VICINITY ILLUSTRATED 

St. Marj^s Catholic Church 181 

School 212 

St. Xaviers' Academy 188 

Stand pipe 12 

Steamer Cimbria 93 

" Sedgwick 95 

Steamship City of Bangor 88 

" Penobscot 90 

Steam Yacht Aria 102 

Sterns Lumber Co.'s Mills 140 

Stetson Ship Yard and Marine Railway 200 

Summer Theatre at Riverside 49 

Telephone Exchange 112, 113 

Tow on the Penobscot 53 

Trolley Party at Riverside 246 

Union Iron Works 134 

Park 48 

Square Grammar School 77 

Street Methodist Church 184 

Unitarian Church 182 

Universalist Church 182 

Up the Penobscot in Spring "... 62 

University of Maine, Engineering Building 218 

Farm Buildings 232 

" " " " Main Drive 221 

JO" " " Wingate, Fernald and Coburn Halls 220 

" " Wingate Hall 230 

" " " View from the Campus 234 

Viaduct on Piscataquis Division B. & A. R. R- 84 

War Canoe, E. H. Gerrish, Builder 248 

Waterman, Julius 168 

West Side, from an East Side Vantage Ground 15 

White Star Laundry 216 

White, Thoma* 168 

Windsor Hotel 208 

Wood & Bishop Co.'s Foundry 144 

Store 145 

Wood & Ewer's Store, " The Fashion," 210 

Y. M. C. A. Building 37 

Y. M. C. A. Building— Interiors 194 



